Got a few minutes to myself

Well, maybe an hour.  It depends on when Sammi gets up.  I put Alex down at 11, and expect Sammi will be up around noon.  It’s 11:38 now.  I did a little laundry this morning, folding only.  When Sammi gets up, I’ll wash and dry a load.  For now, I just want to take advantage of the quiet of the house.  I went to bed at 11 last night, with my Dead Zone DVD, but I’d already seen all the episodes.  Darn.  So at 12, we turned off all the lights, but I don’t know what time it was when I finally fell asleep.  Jerry was snoring, and I never can sleep when he does that.  I asked him to quit, and his sleepy answer was "I’ll try."  ARGH!  So he started up again, and when he made a big snorting noise, I just groaned, and he finally rolled over, which meant the end of the snoring.  Thank GOODNESS.  I woke up around 2:30, and my alarm went off at 3, but I just couldn’t get myself motivated to get the baby… but then she started crying around 3:20, so then I got up and got her.  I put her back to bed around 4 and slept until 9, with one interruption from the girls at 7-ish, something about brushing their hair in our room.  I got close to a full night’s rest… I do wonder what’s UP with all the wakefulness though.  I mean, I just kept sort of cycling in and out of wakefulness.  So I’m still sort of tired…I suspect that the two cans I’ve had of diet dr pepper are what’s keeping me from going back to sleep.  Despite what it sounds like, I’m not trying to right my sleep schedule, just trying to make Jerry happier (though I hate to admit this, but there is this rebellious part of me that wonders why bother?)

I did read back through some old entries when Sammi was a baby, and there’s quite a bit at the beginning, but not much after that.  I was wrong about when I stopped breast feeding… I actually made it to 6 months, not 5, which is only an extra month, but hey, I made it half a year with her.  And here I am with Alex at 9 months and a week.  I’m guessing I’m going to have to make allowances for needing some better rest.  I never feel quite as crazy as I do when I don’t get good sleep.  It’s almost a mantra with me, lol… gotta get good sleep, gotta get good sleep.  Lots of allteration there, too, lol.  So last night’s 6 hours of near straight sleep probably helped, though it would probably help MORE if it had been completely uninterrupted.  Still, I do wonder what it’s done to my supply.  I read an FDA warning the other day on Reglan, which is the drug that really gets my milk up, that 30 days of use can lead to losing muscle control, and it may be permanent.  Woah!  So I feel a bit nervous about using it…however, I’ve NEVER taken it continuously like that.  So it’s probaby okay.  I was thinking what I ought to do is basically take it for a day, maybe 2, then switch over to the Domperidone.  It’s only got to last another 85 days or so… think I can manage that.  

I am printing some pictures of Alex’s first days/weeks, and am going to start in on her album.  Thankfully, I already got down in writing quite a bit of the journaling of her birth, well, actually, I think I got ALL of her birth story down right after she was born while it was still fresh in my mind.  It’s going to be somethign of a complicated layout though, because the story is so long.  I will have to get the ink for my 13 inch printer, so I can do the story on 12 inch paper.  That’s what I had to do with Sammi’s, because it too was so long… and honestly, it wasn’t as long as Alex’s.  I may have to do a whole 12×12 piece of paper with the story on it.  That could be interesting.  Man, I hope I didn’t use ALL the good embellishments on Sammi’s album .  LOL… I bought too much to have that happen.  I’m going to have to refrain from buying any more, as hard as that may be.  I could probably trade for something… but purchase?  No way.

Wow, it’s 12:15, and I’m not hearing Sammi, which either means she’s still asleep, or she’s up but playing quietly in her room.  I’m going to post this, because I really need to go check on her.  She needs breakfast, I’m sure, and changing, etc.  I’ll let her sleep if she’s asleep… I’m printing pictures, so I don’t have to be writing.  Iin fact, there are so many OTHER things I could be doing.