Bring on the Night

A continued entry following the last post describing my day

C’s daily routine after Mark’s birth:

• 6.00am and sometimes even earlier: Mark wakes up and starts yakking/whimpering because he’s done sleeping. Normally he needs a shot of milk too, which C provides sitting half-asleep on the bed.
• 6.30am: After 30 minutes of sucky sleep C has to give up and crawl out of bed.
• 7.15am: C shower, feed Mark and get him ready for day-care, eat and prepare for school.
• 8.30am C walks Mark to day-care.
• 9.00am to 3.00pm: School.
• 3.00-3.10pm: Cycle home.
• 3.10 – 3.30 Walk and pickup Mark from day-care.
• 3.30pm: Arrive home.
• 3.30 – 4.30pm: Watch Mark, do homework or housework – if possible (up to Mark).
• 4.30pm: Chubby Hubby arrives home and we discuss the day.
• 4.30pm – 6.00pm: Watch Mark, do homework or housework – if possible.
• 6.00pm: Feed Mark and eat dinner (in an order controlled by Mark’s crying level).
• 7.00pm: Marks looks extremely tired and C prepares to tug him in.
• 7.30 – 8.00pm: Mark finally dozes off and sometimes so does C in mid-battle.
• 8.00pm: C starts on her homework, housework, watching TV with me or what is on agenda. But always work before pleasure.
• Between 9.00 – 11.00pm: C gets ready for bed depending on the status of homework.
• 11.30am: C is woken up by Mark and has to feed him.
• About 2.00am: C is woken up by Mark and has to either feed him or give him his pacifier. And no – I’m not lazy and I could easily give him his pacifier except for the fact that I’d have to crawl over C to reach him, thus waking her up anyway.
• About 3.00am: There is now a good chance that Mark has lost his pacifier and makes sure to wake everyone up and let them know.
• About 4.00am: C is woken up by Mark and has to feed him.
• About 5.00am: There is now a good chance that Mark has lost his pacifier again.
• About 6.00am or earlier: C is woken up by Mark who’s done sleeping and by 6.00am is hungry again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

I’m struggling to find a time where C has time to relax, and it may be why she’s dead tired and worn all the time.

 Weekends are another matter for both of us of course, but when Mark is not sleeping 20min to 2 hours during the day, one of us is constantly on duty, leaving only one to do chores and similar. I look forward to when he sleeps all night and can entertain himself more.

Tags: life, Mark