After Holidays

It always seems the first few days after the holidays are kind of sad. I miss the holidays and yet I am glad they are over. I still have my tree up and all the decorations but they will be down on the weekend.

Christmas was good and bad. I loved seeing my cousins that I don't normally see but I won't go to the island for Christmas again. It was way to busy of a day and we didn't enjoy the time as much. We started Christmas eve going to my parents to open gifts as we wouldn't have time Christmas day. This was okay but Lauren was so tired and wouldn't nap cause there was so much going on. Then we went to Tony's parents for dinner. Lauren fell asleep in the car so we drove around till she woke up just so she could get a bit of a nap in. She only slept for 30 minutes but it was better than nothing. All night at his parents she was stimulated no matter what we said to let her relax. Finally Tony's dad took her and she just sat on his lap and that helped. We left very quickly after dinner though. Dinner was late cause his mom was playing with Lauren and that made it right at her bedtime. She was fussy all through dinner and I basically shoveled it in as fast as I could so that I could get her ready for bed. I got her in her jammies and fed her and everything and we were ready to leave and his mom grabbed her causing her to spit up all over everything. That meant more time to change her and stuff. We made it home after she screamed the whole way home. Thank goodness she went right to sleep once she was in her own bed. The next day stared the moment she woke up at 6:30. She had also been up every hour and a half all night so that meant none of us got sleep. We went to his parents again to open gifts and have turkey sandwiches. She actually fell asleep in his moms arms for about 40 minutes so at least she got some sleep. We then rushed to my parents and opened our stockings and then rushed to the ferry. We were hoping she would sleep on the ferry as it was at 1 and that is her nap time. Unfortunately this didn't happen. I didn't let anyone else hold her or anything and just cuddled her the whole time hoping she would sleep. She then decided to fall asleep as soon as she got back in the car. This would have been okay except it is only a 20 minute drive to my cousins place. We tried to lay her down once we got there but she wouldn't do it. She screamed and wouldn't calm down for 3 hours. Finally she just gave up and was happy again. It was like she was fussy through her nap and then was back to her happy self. She got to visit with everyone for about 2 hours and that was a nice 2 hours for us. Finally I noticed she was exhausted and ready for bed. I put her down and she was out. This was sort of nice for us as we could have a nice dinner. Then we had to rush to get the ferry home. Luckily she didn't wake up when we put her in the car. She slept till about 10 minutes till the ferry docked on our side. We just stayed in the car with her and slept. She then screamed the whole way home. Once we got home she didn't want to sleep either. Finally around 2ish she gave in and we could all go to bed. She then decided she was going to get up every hour and then be up for the day at 8. I was so tried and at the end of my rope. It wasn't fair to Tony or to Lauren as I was not nice with no patience for anything. It took me till new years day to finally relax a bit. New years we stayed home and I was in bed by 10. I was up at 12 though feeding Lauren. I don't think she would have woken up but our neighbours decided to light off firecracker for 30 minutes in their front yard and throwing them in our yard right outside her window. It woke us up so it doesn't surprise me that it woke her.

Since then though Lauren seems to have a bad cough. I think she had a cold all over Christmas and was stuffed up but we thought it was a reaction to the perfume his mom wears as Lauren sneezes every time she is around her. I think that the cough is the end of the cold. She wakes up every half hour or so coughing but goes right back to sleep on her own. She is now only getting up once maybe twice a night to eat. I am hoping that this will be her normal and not because she is sick. I am getting more sleep and feeling so much better. I have more patience than I have had in a while and not so awful to be around. I was not nice to live with I am sure. I need my sleep though. I had a 4 hour nap till the day I started kindergarten so I have always liked my sleep. I knew once I had a baby I wouldn't get as much but I really thought it would be more than 4-5 hours a day. I almost can't wait to go back to work cause I will get so much more sleep. When I do nights I will get even more sleep. I don't really want to go back to work but I will enjoy the sleep.