Two Boys, No Sleep

Two kids, no matter the combination, generally equates to a lack of sleep and a general dislike for your spouse. Not a "real" dislike, but more the frustrated, illogical, insane reaction to getting up every night, several times a night, to answer the screams, cries, and calls for your attention to do "something". The something may or may not be defined depending on the age of the child.

For example, my 10-month old doesn't really articulate his particular needs very well. He might be cold, hungry, thirsty, dirty, need his binky, or just need some attention. It’s a total crap-shoot which it is.

So this can be, understandably, frustrating.

On the other hand, my 3.5 year-old does articulate pretty well, but that doesn’t necessarily alleviate the frustration:

“DADDY! DADDY! DADDY!”

Open door, bleary eyed, lacking sleep, “Yes Porter?”

“I need to hug you.”

As tender-hearted a moment as that can be, I assure you at 2am, lacking sleep from child #2, you aren’t going to be nearly as touched. You’ll give the hug, because, ya know, awesome. But still, you’d prefer to have gotten a good night’s rest to properly appreciate the moment.