Happy Mother's Day

We had a rough night leading into Mother's day. The girls lately have been more unhappy and restless at night, but last night was probably one of the hardest. Lately we keep all three of them in the crib in our bedroom, because it allows us to share a bed and still keep track of the girls. We weren't up all night but their cycle seemed to arrive just when I was in the middle of a dream-sequence, and I find it very hard to recover from repeatedly waking from that level of sleep. Evelyn in particular needed to be held, jiggled, cuddled or patted almost all night -- I can tuck her under my arm and pat her mechanically on the back in my sleep now, which really seems to help.

We've been reading about night-time problems. Tonight we're going to try to bring in my whooshing white-noise machine from my psychotherapy office and run that at night to see if it helps. Supposedly they need MORE stimulation at night, not less, in order to sleep soundly. So swaddling them tightly, running a sound machine or a fan, and keeping the room humidified is our plan for the night.

Meanwhile it was a beautiful day. I worked in the garden in the morning, and set up a new dog pen for Julie (we are reclaiming the old area for family use) and tore down some of the old fencing. Joe and Fernando came over for Mother's Day lunch - they had shrimp and I stuck with my vegan diet.