Blogging on My Feet

Here I am, logging on to my blog for the first time in a couple of weeks, to get in a quick update while Claire sleeps...on me.  I have her all snuggled up in the Ergo (best. baby carrier. ever.) and here I stand (yes, stand) typing away as quickly as I can because I know she will wake up soon..and guess what??

I don't even know what to write about.

Last night I lay in bed next to the baby and thought, "I should get up and blog about.....(insert fabulous topic here that I've been stewing over for days but now can't even remember because that's what happens when you have kids...you lose brain cells and just FORGET about your short term memory, okay??).  And the reason I didn't get up is because - I was TIRED.  And I thought, "If the baby is going to sleep I had might as well sleep too while I can..." and I was out like a light.

The good thing (I guess?) about being so tired at night?  

I can drink tea late in the afternoon and STILL FALL ASLEEP.

This is huge and a real measure of how tired I actually am.

The thing is, I don't actually feel that tired.  I have it pretty good.  Claire is awesome and easy as far as babies go, Charles works from home so can help in the afternoons/evenings and Jack is doing great.  But I am still exhausted at the end of the day.  Just a by-product of having a newborn.  And I am not in a position to complain.  Just yesterday I read an article about a woman in Africa who had five kids and then had quadruplets.  As if that weren't hard enough, she nursed them all and had NO HELP from her husband.  So relatively speaking, I have it damn easy.  

I am short on brain cells these days but hoping that maybe blogging will get those synapses firing again.  So for that reason, I strapped the sleeping baby in the Ergo, made some ranch dressing from a packet of dressing mix for our guests  (who are at the pool with Charles and Jack) and forced myself to write something standing up even though all I really want to do is sit down and finish the last episode of Teen Mom before Claire wakes up.  

We'll see if this works.  I'll let you know if I feel any sharper (because right now I feel like the word "DULL" describes me just perfectly...mentally and physically, anyway) next time.