2. Tell us about something your significant other will never live down.
Giving birth to your first baby has to be one of the most difficult adjustments any human can make.
Gone were the days that I could spend lounging on the couch. Suddenly I was jumping at every noise she made.
20 minute showers? Sleeping in? Alone time?
All gone.
The sleep deprivation though, is what turned me into a complete monster. I had envisioned my husband to be the kind of Dad who would get up in the middle of the night while I was feeding my baby to see if I needed anything. A glass of water perhaps? Maybe a hug? He would smile at me with sympathy and love, and he would offer to rock the baby while I got some much-needed rest.
In reality, Pat somehow managed to sleep through everything. As a first-time mom, with no real ‘tricks’ up my sleeve…I often found myself walking our fussy baby in circles around our house, distracting her with Christmas lights, shushing her, crying with her, BEGGING her to stop crying and to please PLEASE go to sleep.
My husband slept through it all.
On occasion, I would get so angry at his ability to “sleep through it all” that I would actually pull every God-forsaken blanket off his body, throw it to the ground, stomp on it, hiss at him, and then punch the door on my way to the baby’s room.
One morning, after a particularly awful night, Pat and I had made plans to go shopping for daycare furniture. Pat lay on the couch while I ran around getting myself ready. He was quiet and distant while I fed, changed, bathed, and dressed the baby.
I was functioning on just a few hours of sleep and was a little annoyed at his lack of help so that we could get out the door. I approached him before leaving, “Is there a problem?”
He was confused, “Huh? No…why!?!”
“It’s just you’ve been laying here all morning and not really talking…you just seem irritated.”
“No not at all!”
And the next sentence out of his mouth is one I will never ever forget for as long as I live.
“It’s just…you know what it feels like when you almost get too MUCH sleep? Sometimes it just makes you feel even more tired…”
Too MUCH sleep?
Too much?
TOO MUCH!!?!!?!?!
I can’t tell you what happened after that moment because I don’t remember. I do know that I actually, physically killed him but he somehow came back to life, which is great because he really has come in handy since then.
However, those words? All that “too much sleep” he was getting while I burned the midnight oil every night with a cranky infant attached to my hip?
Yeah, he’s never lived those down.
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1. Write a blog post in exactly 14 lines.
2. Tell us about something your significant other will never live down.
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5. Tell us about a time you made things awkward.
John Holton says
I’d’ve gone to a hotel for a couple of days and left him in charge of the baby. Okay, that might have been a disaster,. but still, you needed sleep. And, knowing you, you wouldn’t be able to sleep…