Trying something new

It's always so scary changing the status quo at the Hamilton household. We don't get a lot of sleep lately, so we've been rethinking a few strategies for the girls. The only problem is that I know we could change things and have it all turn out worse tonight, or for the week or for forever. You just never know the repercussions of your actions.

So tonight's test is to move Willow into Avalon's room. It seemed to work ok on our holiday, and my thought is "we couldn't really lose any more sleep than we have lately, could we?"

With both girls fussing and waking considerably last night, my new thought is maybe they'll both get more day sleep if they shatter eachother as much as they shattered me last night with their wakings.

This is another hard thing about parenting 2 kids under 2. I was under the false assumption that I'd at least get some 40 minute sleep cycle sleeps during the night. But not so with 2. Just as the first is resettling and you tuck yourself in again, the other cries out for some unknown reason. Then that one settles and 15 minutes later, the first starts again. It's very cruel.

I never talked about or even considered sleep as much as I do now. It's like when you're on the 40hr famine and all you can think of is food. When a basic human necessity gets taken away from you, it can be all consuming.

What bothers me more though is that my children have a resistance to late nights. I'd expect some sort of flow-on tiredness into the following day that might allow me to indulge in a 2hr nap. Nope. Think again! Avalon's 1.5 hrs is all she ever wants, thank you very much! And any more than that and we pay for it the following night with a 9pm tuck-in.

Grizzle, grizzle. =(

It's 9pm now and I'm tying this and considering an early night might be in order. I'll ask Craig to bottle Willow the 11pm feed so I can get some good hours in before the wakings begin. The only down side is that this special after 7.30pm time is the only time I have to myself in the day. And it really does seem like such a waste to sleep through it.

Regardless, I think I'll let my sensibilities direct me tonight and take one for the team. Pillow, here I come!