![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
I wish I could time travel...
Jun. 24th, 2011 02:59 pm...and find a quiet little pocket somewhere where I could get some extra sleep and some writing time. Our computer had some major hardware issues that we had to address, and DH spent hours last night trying to get the bios settings to work after installing the replacement parts. The kids didn't want to go to bed because they were all interested in what he was doing. PMB did fall asleep around 8:30, but I still had at least two kids up at 11:30 when I finally passed out. Unfortunately, just after midnight, PMB woke up again, and got up about every 20 minutes until 3 am. Then when I woke up at 7:30, my oldest son was already up.
Unfortunately, PMB waking up at night is still a pretty regular occurrence. He's almost three, and I seriously cannot stay awake a second longer! Meanwhile, he hops around and sings and shows me stuff and wants me to read to him and chase him on my bike and make him food every ten minutes. I do not know how he is alive! Because I'm sure not. Please, someone tell me that it gets better! None of my kids like to sleep, but this one is worse than the rest of them combined. I ache from lack of sleep and my mind feels like sludge.
I really hope he sleeps tonight, because we're tentatively planning another Yellowstone trip tomorrow, now that our car is fixed.
Also, I have some ideas to use on a novel I've been mulling for a while (it's done, but it lacks something still). But it's the sort of thing where you have to get into the story and follow your subconscious, and if you lose that thread before you start, or if you talk about it too much in advance, you'll lose it. I don't need silence, I don't need my own little office or writing house. Just a few hours of being a) fully awake and b) not on call. If I get a little bit of time every day to sleep and to organize things in my head (ie write), I just have a higher ability to handle the chaos and activity of the day.
I think I'm just whining. I keep looking at the paper where I wrote down my revision ideas, and I keep opening files of story beginnings, and while I like them and see potential, I'm too tired to connect dots today.
Sleep, kid, sleep!
Unfortunately, PMB waking up at night is still a pretty regular occurrence. He's almost three, and I seriously cannot stay awake a second longer! Meanwhile, he hops around and sings and shows me stuff and wants me to read to him and chase him on my bike and make him food every ten minutes. I do not know how he is alive! Because I'm sure not. Please, someone tell me that it gets better! None of my kids like to sleep, but this one is worse than the rest of them combined. I ache from lack of sleep and my mind feels like sludge.
I really hope he sleeps tonight, because we're tentatively planning another Yellowstone trip tomorrow, now that our car is fixed.
Also, I have some ideas to use on a novel I've been mulling for a while (it's done, but it lacks something still). But it's the sort of thing where you have to get into the story and follow your subconscious, and if you lose that thread before you start, or if you talk about it too much in advance, you'll lose it. I don't need silence, I don't need my own little office or writing house. Just a few hours of being a) fully awake and b) not on call. If I get a little bit of time every day to sleep and to organize things in my head (ie write), I just have a higher ability to handle the chaos and activity of the day.
I think I'm just whining. I keep looking at the paper where I wrote down my revision ideas, and I keep opening files of story beginnings, and while I like them and see potential, I'm too tired to connect dots today.
Sleep, kid, sleep!
