sj, she had lengthened her sleep cycle out a bit last month, but since daycare started she's back to every 3 hours (not 3 hours of sleep at a time, but waking every 3 hours for half an hour of feeding, changing and soothing back to sleep, then rinse and repeat exactly 3 hours after the previous wake-up).

Oh, honey, you can cry on my bosom. Dang, I would be so panicked if I locked my baby in the car. Luckily I don't drive. (Although I have accidentally neglected to fasten the staps on the carseat for the entire ride home from the mall.)

{{{JZ}}} I have no idea what else to say, so I will just give more hugs.

Let me just point out that this part:

the $1300 in additional repairs of leaky valves and bald tires the car turned out to also need when I brought it in for the keys

Not a bit your fault. Unless you're the kind of person who won't go to the doctor because of that one time Aunt Erma went in for a cold and found out she had cancer and DIED.

JZ, I just discovered I get Monday off. (yes, I am a little slow about these things sometimes). Want me to do some swooping, and/or maybe take you out to lunch?

Not a bit your fault. Unless you're the kind of person who won't go to the doctor because of that one time Aunt Erma went in for a cold and found out she had cancer and DIED.

Seconded.

And really, when you're sleep deprived, you can't think the same. You just can't. I remember finally getting a week's worth of sufficient sleep when the babies got of an age, and being flabbergasted by how much more with it I was.

Do you and Hec split the night time feedings, at all?

((((JZ)))) I have no idea what that must be like with a baby, but have, from time to time been so stressed with life goings on that I have done some truly stupid, stupid things, and I don't even have the reason of night time feedings.

Lee, thanks, but we'll be driving back down from Tahoe and I'm not sure exactly when we'll be back.

Everyone told me about the sleep dep, and I thought I understood, but I didn't. Not a bit. I haven't slept the night through since last August. Christmas Eve, and one night last week, she only woke once during the night, but it's been 2-4 wakeups a night all the other nights. Since she was born.

My supervisor is trying to groom me for an admin position supporting the cardiac PICU director once my boss retires, a job with all kinds of fancy perks and great money and varied and interesting duties, and I'm gonna have to tell her NO. Just NO. I can't be a remotely competent parent and spouse and do that. Which makes me feel like ass; I have this vague idea that the world is full of high-powered lawyers who are back arguing cases before the Supreme Court at 6 weeks post-partum, and I can't get my shit together enough to order an extra key for my boss's office.

Aw JZ, I'm so sorry. But you know, shit happens, especially when you're tired and overwhelmed. Whem my family moved from Newfoundland to Cape Breton, I was only 3 months old. On the way to the ferry, my parents stopped into to say good-bye to my Aunt and Uncle. They they were very sad to leave, but they bundled the kids in the car, and they were on the road for 15-20 minutes before they realized that they left me behind.

I have this vague idea that the world is full of high-powered lawyers who are back arguing cases before the Supreme Court at 6 weeks post-partum,

Nuh uh. It's just not so. Also, high-powered lawyers have live-in nannies anyway.

In news about me, why oh why is my response to a semi-crisis at work to want to spend EVEN MORE TIME dicking around on the internets???