Isn’t motherhood grand! We’ve been having quite the time getting Selene to sleep through the night to even a reasonable degree lately.

And by reasonable I mean more than 1-2 hours between wakeups.

Ever since everyone other than me and Selene got sick, she’s been waking up like that, all night long. It’s insane. Especially since trying to have my husband comfort her only rarely works. It’s Mommy or she stays awake. Let Daddy try too long and she stays up for Mommy too.

All this is making it really hard to be productive. Some of my best work times are when she’s napping. But just now I need the nap too.

Of course, she’s so darn cute I can’t stay mad at her, no matter how tired I get.

I’m going to try cutting her nap short today. She’s been napping 3-4 hours easy during the day – no fair that she sleeps a longer stretch during the day than she does at night! I just need to see if she’s napping too long.

In the meantime, I think my husband’s going to have to take a lot more parenting duties in the the evenings while the kids are awake to help me out. There’s way too much stuff I need, need, NEED to get done online. His job as much as mine when he’s home, no matter what the kids think.

What can I say? It’s quite an adjustment having a baby around here again. It’s just so easy to forget just how much work a newborn is.

Good thing Selene is so darn cute. And sweet. And hungry.

Is she ever hungry! My biggest adjustment right now is probably just how much time I’m spending each day feeding her. It’s tiring but really in a good way. Although if you ask me that around 4 a.m. I might disagree. But that’s just the sleepy speaking.

Between her and my son, there’s very little time for working. Things can actually be better when my oldest daughter gets home if she and my son want to play. They might just ignore me for 1-2 hours! And if I’m really lucky the baby will sleep that whole time.

If I’m not careful, so will I.

Now that I’m more recovered, though, I’m not sleeping quite so much during the day and I’m actually occasionally getting some work done. But it can still be a struggle to get so much as a single blog post done, never mind the two I would like to get done, so I can post on more than one of my sites.

There’s all the extra laundry, of course. We’re cloth diapering this time around, so there’s a decided difference. Plus the older two have rediscovered the delights of digging in the dirt and adding in water to make it mud. Great pictures to laugh at later, but I have to be a bit picky now about the clothes they play outside in. I’m trying to limit the number of outfits stained.

Having 3 kids is getting to be fun again. I’m no longer so exhausted that I feel too worn out to appreciate what I have. Selene is getting awfully cute with those smiles.