Two nights in a row

Son hasn’t woken up in the night. Two nights in a row.

This is glorious.

We have been so stressed for reasons I don’t even know. I think for me it’s my wife’s stress, but I know some of her stress is from me, and of course we’re both stressed I think from that continued lack of personal time.

I’ve just been on my phone this morning, but if this keeps up, I will start running at 4am, which has been proven to be the first step to save my soul.

My son and I have had a cold. So that has stopped that and also has gotten me to go to sleep before 9pm. Honestly probably a very good thing showing me how easy it is to get up at 4am if sleeping 7 hours uninterrupted.

It sometimes feels a little embarrassing how we struggle with all this, knowing how common child raising is, and how mature we should be for doing this in our 40s. I don’t think we could imagine a second kid now, and my colleague who’s 48 just had his fourth! (His wife is younger.)

Time for another cup of tea. They’re all still sleeping upstairs.