I am majorly groggy this morning, not helped by extreme insomnia at 5 AM, followed by a two hour "nap" starting at 9 AM. Plus I had a dream about living in a horrible, horrible apartment, where my former coworkers came to check up on me and were visibly pitying me for living there....

I had nasty insomnia last night - I think I got to sleep around 1:30. I've had two cups of tea and I think I'm waking up now.

There should be a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger breaks into a police station armed with machine guns and forces all the cops to put on velour jumpsuits....

Yay, Allyson!

I cannot work past about 2pm if I'm on my own. The entire time I was in law school and studying for the bar, I would start my reading/writing at 7am and work until about 1:30. Past that, I might mean to work, but I could never get myself motivated to do it.

In college, I could occasionally study until 9-10pm, but after that I would start to feel sick to my stomach and cold.

I've never had trouble sleeping, but when I was pregnant, sometimes I couldn't sleep. Since I was in the house alone, it was incredibley liberating when I finally realized that I could get up, read, watch TV, or have a snack and no one would care or want me back in bed.

Yep. I'm currently on leave, but my usual breaks are July-August and December-early March. K's breaks are May-June and November-December. So there are only 4 months a year when we are working at the same time. Which means I need to start thinking about childcare for Sept.-Oct. but we'll see. My mom said she'd come out then before she got all mad and stompy and left.

That's really good, plus you should be fully recovered by then, which will help you deal with an interrupted sleeping schedule (for yourself). I had relatively easy pregnancies and fast deliveries, but sucky sucky sucky recoveries with all three babies. It always seemed like a cruel joke that a newly post-partum mother has to wake every couple of hours.

I hope your mom is over it all (or at least can't resist grandchildren thrall) by the time they get home. It would be great to have a grandma-who's-a-nurse helping to care for Grace and Noah during that first cycle when both you and Katie are working.

OMG, could the Garner/Afflect family be anymore adorable?

And JG looks REALLY good.

I feel so much better when I walk to work in the morning. Why don't I do it more often?

Yay Allyson!

Despite having to get up 6ish every morning I will never be a morning person. Never gonna happen. I treasure late start days.

This weekend is a big fun thing in the Keys. Annually we celebrate the anniversary of the secession of the city of Key West from union in 1982. [link] I first moved to Florida in the middle of the Mariel boatlift [link] and my first impression of the state was flavored with the impact of that event. The original secession was great fun and like all Key West events, the annual event is fun too. The Keys are becoming crazy overdeveloped, but the fun still happens.

It always seemed like a cruel joke that a newly post-partum mother has to wake every couple of hours.

I totally can see this. There are so many cruel jokes like this one (for example, the awkwardness and clumsiness of pregnancy) that it is a marvel that humans survived at all.

Why don't I do it more often?

Snow and/or rain. Perhaps the ever popular wintery mix.

I should walk to work more often too. Or at least ride my bike. It is less than 2 miles to the office.