Eternally Tired

I feel as though I will never again know what it is like to feel rested. Ever since we were all battling the great sicknesses of 2010, Chris and I can not shake this overly tired feeling. At some point we moved from the "take a nap when they nap" to never napping during the day. Granted we have two babies who just don't stop going and going and going, but seriously; this is ridiculous. I can't even really complain because I have not gotten up in the middle of the night since I don't know when. Two nights ago I even slept for 9 hours and still had the hardest time dragging myself out of bed! This morning I woke up when Jake woke up at 5am and was so happy that everyone got such a good night's sleep until I went downstairs to feed Jake and found the tell-tale signs of a middle of the night feeding. I was not even aware of Jake and Chris getting up and then coming back to bed. I said to Chris that when he got up in the middle of the night that might have been when I was dreaming that Samantha was crying. In my dream she was crying and when I went to get her I found her sleeping in the bathtub.

Totally bizarre. Anyway, thank goodness for Chris who is a morning person, because he consistently gets up with Jake in the middle of the night and then even if I am getting up with the kids in the morning, he gets right up as well instead of staying in bed. It's at times like these that I marvel at the fact that I manage to get up when he is traveling because I do not do well when I am short on sleep.

Yesterday both kids went down for a nap at noon and Chris and I ate lunch and then headed upstairs to take a nap as well. We were sleeping for literally 10 minutes when Samantha woke up crying after sleeping for an hour. We took one big collective sigh and said "you've got to be kidding". Now of course, today both kids were down and noon and are still sleeping and it's now 2:15. The day you decide to take a nap everyone wakes up and the day you decide not to they marathon nap.