Solo Starting Sunday

My husband is out of town for work this week again... I think I'm at the point when it's beginning to feel a little old hat to solo parent my two active babies, er I mean- toddlers for several days in a row. I wasn't worried or stressed about this week in advance like I have been in the past. (Understand that we have no family near us that can stop by to help. If there's something major that happens- like a emergency room trip, or a tornado, I'm all on my own. I tend to have bad things happen to me when my husband is out of town- like my car dying an hour away from home, locking myself out of the house or locking my keys in my car, or even setting the house on fire. This has made me a little trepidatious when he's been gone since Sam and Anna have been born- understandably, I think.)

The nice thing this time is that we're all done with bottles and medicine, so the time needed to wash and make bottles and prepare the reflux meds after Sam and Anna went to bed does not need to be devoted to that anymore. It will be a little easier to get us all out the door by 7 am because I won't have to give them each a bottle before we go. I may have worked up a sweat trying to feed, bathe, and get both of my very mobile little ones to bed tonight by myself, but it isn't as stressful as it used to be. (Sam and Anna are at a stage right now where they are a little jealous of the other one getting attention from a parent if they aren't. This will probably make this week a little more interesting when there's only one parent to go around!)

I'm just crossing my fingers that we have a good sleep week, because the hardest part is being up at all hours without having someone to tag team with when you have to get up at 5 am to get ready for work. Anna had a lot of issues with a storm this weekend and I didn't really fall asleep until the storms past around 3 am, so I really hope there's no lightning or thunder in store any evening this week! I think she was afraid of the lightning flashes, but she was okay as long as I was holding her (similar to other things she is afraid of, like our vacuum). I was finally able to keep her in her crib sleeping successfully at 2 am.

Sam had a little trouble falling asleep tonight probably due to the slight variance in our bedtime routine since it was just me or maybe due to the high winds in our area... at one point I went to listen at the door to see if he had finally fallen asleep and I swear I heard "Anna, wake up." This does not bode well for tonight's sleep...