Dawnfall

NS June 16th, 2009

Things I have said or thought since being awakened by The Noble Baby at 4.28 this morning, followed an hour later by his sister:

  • No
  • No no nooooo
  • What the…?!
  • Holy god, what time is it?
  • Oh, hello Mr Sun. Did you not get the memo? It’s 4.30AM.
  • Really, you need to leave.
  • Child, I will get to you in a minute
  • Okay, okay
  • (A half hour later) Honey, wake up. I’ve served my sentence. Your turn
  • Oh for god’s sake, can’t you go to the toilet by yourself, TNC? It’s 5.30. Go back to bed
  • Okay, I’m up. Jesus!
  • My life sucks (cue repentent tears for ever having children)
  • I am in hell
  • How strong can I make this coffee before I risk cardiac arrest?
  • Leave the cat alone, TNC, or so help me god…
  • There ya go (tossing TNC the Cheerio box and TNB a cracker)
  • Ugh, I hate the Teletubbies
  • And the Tweenies, they’re rubbish
  • What did I do to deserve this?
  • I’m getting blackout blinds sewn onto the windows, stat
  • Better yet, just take out the windows. We’ll live like cave people
  • Is it too early to start drinking? People are still in clubs dancing out there!
  • Only 13 hours to go…woo!
  • Good things these kids are cute. Otherwise there’d be trouble

    • 12 Responses to “Dawnfall”

    1. Kristine says:
      16 June 2009 at 8:28 am

      Hahahahahaha! I’ve said all of these things as well! Summer mornings are always difficult because the sun comes up so gosh darn early and the blinds do little to block it. I really should learn how to sew so I can make some super thick dark curtains and hide the fact that Ra has arisen each morning.

    2. Tara@Sticky Fingers says:
      16 June 2009 at 8:43 am

      4.28? (very specific there, by the way!)
      That is not early morning my dear, that is still the middle of the night! You need to sort that Noble Baby out. It comes to something when waking up at 6am is considered a lie in!

    3. Charlotte says:
      16 June 2009 at 10:07 am

      Wah! Me too! Especially with the Tubbies and the Tweenies – loathe the buggers.

    4. Signor Dos Empanadas says:
      16 June 2009 at 11:32 am

      Yup, morning begins when the sun rises for TNB. 4:43am in London today and for the rest of June. It will be 5:15am in Chicago thanks to the whole latitude thing – lucky us.

      Sleeping masks for babies? Google says yes:

      http://www.downtimebaby.com

      Thoughts?

    5. Iota says:
      16 June 2009 at 2:07 pm

      Many is the time when I’ve calculated the hours till bedtime, first thing in the morning!

    6. BoozleBox says:
      16 June 2009 at 8:11 pm

      Ouch! I have only sympathy to offer you. Mine are older and I have the opposite problem – too light at bedtime so no-one wants to go to bed. I was going to say “Remember, this too shall pass” but I have a feeling I may have wanted to kill the people that said that shit to me. So I won’t.

    7. Tabitha says:
      17 June 2009 at 1:53 am

      Bless! You have my sympathy.

    8. A Free Man says:
      17 June 2009 at 2:49 am

      Yeah. Me too. Zach’s going through a phase of waking in the night again. Both my partner and I are ready to kill – each other or him.

    9. Strawberry says:
      17 June 2009 at 4:24 am

      You don’t have blackout blinds?!?!?!?!?!? Oh my stars!!!! Woman, get yourself to Argos TODAY and, tomorrow, sunrise will come at whatever time *you* choose…!

    10. NS says:
      17 June 2009 at 7:30 am

      @Kristine – The day I learn to sew is the day pigs fly. I’ll get TNH on it though, he’s the resident seamster.

      @Tara – I am always precise with the time when it comes before 6.30. Something about the injustice of it makes me pay attention to detail.

      @Charlotte – Forget waterboarding, the military should be using sleep deprivation and prolonged Tweenie viewing to elicit secrets and confessions from terrorists, traitors and spies. This is why I think mothers would make good soldiers: we’d never crack.

      @Signor Dos Empanadas – That mask automatically made me think of “A Clockwork Orange.” Not exactly what you want to enter your head when looking at your sleeping child. Plus, it needs some duct tape for the mouth. Kidding!!

      @Iota – Glad to know I’m not alone in doing that.

      @Boozle Box – Yes, you’re right, I hate when people say that to me. Thanks for restraining yourself! And thanks for dropping by, it was great to meet you on Sunday. :)

      @Tabitha – Thanks doll!

      @A Free Man – I think Boy Z is just putting you in training for the broken nights when baby number two arrives. Sympathies, my friend.

      @Strawberry – I can see that *this* is how you get your children to sleep until 9 or 10am now. Why didn’t you tell me that it was down to blackout blinds?! Will get myself to a shop post haste.

    11. andrea says:
      17 June 2009 at 2:18 pm

      i think the baby sleeping mask is genius!! i’d get one immediately for your flight tomorrow. that’s right – you’re heading to chicago TOMORROW!!!! woo hoo!!

    12. cartside says:
      17 June 2009 at 8:25 pm

      Lovely. Those are the nights that make it all worthwhile.

      I’ve tagged you to take part in Recycle Week, hope you join in.