24: Kate Edition

7:00pm: Dance with glee when Aaron arrives back from getting a carton of milk with a peaceful, sleeping Dylan

7:45pm: Dylan wakes up


8:46 - 10:15pm: Convalesce on couch while Aaron rocks and bounces Dylan

10:16pm: Aaron gives up

10:17 - 10:59: Dylan enjoys the evening


11:00pm: Wrestle Dylan to sleep

11:01pm: Bed

3:30am: Dylan wakes up


3:30:01am: Wake up

3:45am: Bed

5:00am: Wake up (WHY? WHY?)

5:25am: Bed

7:15am: Dylan wakes up

7:15:01am: Wake up

9:45am: Faithfully attend semiannual dermatologist appointment ("So, why haven't we seen you in the past two years?")

11:05am: Finally settle in to do some work

11:08am: The system will be shutting down shortly, please save all work

11:30am: Rearrange schedule to attend late afternoon meeting

Noon: Attend presentation. Watch as latecomers find ever more creative places to sit after all the chairs are taken

1:00pm: Approach daycare; hear Dylan screaming. Feed Dylan. Leave daycare; hear Dylan screaming

2:15pm: Receive e-mail with instructions to read e-mail about daylight savings and Outlook. Note that daylight savings e-mail has not been received. Wonder if they seriously mean all Outlook calendar appointments have to be moved by hand

3:00pm: Afternoon meeting cancelled, scary whiteout outside

4:00pm: Pick Dylan up. Teachers say how some kids just don't sleep more than 30 minutes at a time there (Pediatrician last Friday: "Most kids sleep better at daycare, so at least you'll have that")

5:05pm: Passionately debate relative merits of keeping the pathetic exhausted baby up until bedtime versus letting her nap

5:20pm: Put Dylan down for a nap Nurse Dylan to sleep because what filthy liar told you she could put herself to sleep, fool?

5:33pm: Daydream about bedtime

6:00pm: Decide 23 hours is good enough