Its a new dawn....its a new day.....

Well I have attempted to begin several blogs over the last week, but I always seem to descend into some sort of misery, which is a shame because I really don't have a lot to be miserable about!

I have had a lovely day today, an old school friend was in town, and dropped in for an hour for a visit, she had some sad news and some moans and we had a lovely time catching up together.

My husband let me sleep in this morning, I am not entirely sure why, but I seem to be needing quite a bit of sleep at the moment, yes I am aware we have a 7 week old baby, and he does wake us up in the night - both of us, and we take it in turns to feed him and tend to him and although I am not even dealing with him every night, I am absolutely exhausted. I really have no right to be though. With my eldest son, he would spend hours awake, he slept about 11 hours a day when he was a newborn, and for roughly the first six weeks he slept mostly during the day. Back then I couldn't sleep during the day as I had a neighbour on one side of our narrow terraced house, who owned a dog which barked constantly from the minute she left in the morning at around about 7.30, until she returned at night at around about 6. The other side were neighbours who had no thought for anyone but themselves, loud music, banging on the walls, shouting.....she had some sort of mental problem of that I am sure, and they had been through some terrible times. But I didn't really understand why their anger at the world was directed at us.

I was living on 3 hours sleep a night, a good night was 5 hours, and I felt good on that, right now I am getting 8-10 hours thanks to my lovely husband, and although broken sleep, its still a good long stint of sleep, I should be on top of the world, but instead I am in an almost constant fuzz.

Gah now I sound like an old woman in a Doctor's waiting room 'and what are you in for dear?' 'Well, where to start....!'

Other than relentless tiredness I am good though.

After my visting friend left, the children and I sat and had lunch together - pre-made by my lovely husband - is there no end to his generous nature? Firstly allowing me to sleep, letting me sit and chit chat with my friend, and then making us lunch before going to work!

After lunch we spent a nice afternoon, watching various films and tv, and playing with the baby. I prepared dinner for tonight, which was pork loin steaks, roast parsnips, mashed potatoes, carrots, broccoli, peas and sweetcorn and onion gravy. So I am not entirely useless! I have prepared the same for my husband for his return, and will cook his fresh.

The children had their dressing up things out, and went from fireman, to princess, to pirate, to ghost pirate...all great fun and noisy as they charged around the house shooting each other, marrying each other and stealing each others gold!

Now we are heading into the evening section of the day, I've cleared up from our dinner, and am sitting with the baby and tapping this quick blog out. My oldest is playing on the computer, my daughter is going from watching Despicable Me Despicable Me (Single-Disc Edition) to tormenting her brother while he tries to shoot something on the computer....a good day all in all, I am tired even though I don't even seem to have done a lot, at the same time I haven't stopped!