Patience

HELP!!. Most days I am pretty patient with the girls but today I want a punching bag.

Tracey has been sick all weekend and I'm worrying today that it might have gotten passed along. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this before but Sophie wakes up some nights multiple times crying. It's usually only a few whimpers and she falls back asleep. She was doing this last night at around 11:30 so I went in there a couple times and she would go back to sleep. I finally laid down with her but her bead is about 4 feet long so I didn't last long. I had researched earlier and found that people believe children can have nightmares as early as 1 year old. Not sure that I agree but maybe. So I started feeling bad and decided to bring her in our room to sleep with us. Bad decision. Hannah also sleeps in our room and was quickly awakened when Sophie began saying "baby" as soon as we walked in. Then she freaked out when I tried to lay her down beside Tracey. Well Hannah and Tracey woke up, so now all four of us are up at 1 am.

7 AM... Hannah's awake which is normal and Tracey rushes to get ready, typical morning. Normally Hannah drinks 4 ounces at each feeding but this morning she would only take 2. I figured her belly was hurting so I gave her some gas relief stuff which I took last night too. She went down pretty good and slept for about 2 hours.

Sophie has been pretty good all morning but I noticed that her nose was running and was coughing a little. 11 AM comes and it all starts breaking down. Hannah's up again and still not eating, Sophie's whining and looks pitiful. Both girls are crying and daddy's losing patience. Hannah finally went back down but cried a lot. This is were Tracey and I differ, I let her cry for 5-10 minutes and Tracey can't do that. My philosophy is she's crying out here no matter what I do so might as well let her be laying down.

At this point I'm just stressed out. I don't know if women just have some special ability to handle this but I don't, at least not today. But now it's 2 PM and both girls are asleep. I think I'm going to take a nap myself. I have to be in Kingsport at 5:30 and Tracey doesn't get home until close to 5 so I guess it's going to be a long day.

OK, so I've vented and feel better, not really, but maybe some of you can relate I'm sure.

Thanks for reading,

Dad