Lazy Boy

This post is not about my husband or son or even any other man I know... it is about a chair. A chair we bought a couple of years ago. It was very inexpensive and very comfortable. I used it a lot during my pregnancy and post partum. It is great for nursing babies and taking naps. But last night I became very intimate with said chair. Lorelai and I slept there almost all night. I got sleep, but not the type of quality sleep I prefer. The night before last I got 3 hours of sleep. That is a total... Last night, I really couldn't tell you how much or how little I got. I wanted to take a nap yesterday to make up for the missed sleep... but with 3 sick kids at home, that was impossible. So last night I was especially tired. So I gave in and just slept on the chair all night. I held the baby in my arms and slept. I took all three kids to the doctor yesterday and you should see the arsenal of medications we are armed with. Each child has at least 2 they have to take. Caroline is inflicted with a sinus infection. She missed the whole week of school including the big field trip yesterday which does not make her an especially happy girl. Hilton has an ear infection and bromchitis which is complicated by his asthma. His fever started yesterday and he sounds like he is coughing up a lung. Lorelai has an ear infection, bronchitis and RSV. I know, that kid is NEVER healthy. Poor baby keeps throwing up from coughing so hard! And she is so miserable she can't sleep for more than half an hour at a time. At 3:30 in the morning I growled because Lorelai had woken up once again and Justin said, "Don't get frustrated Honey..." And I said, crying, "But I am so tired!" To which he replied, "I know, me too..." I wanted to scream at him. Because for all the wonderful help he is around the house during the day, he is useless at night. He loves his sleep and will do anything to avoid losing any. He will get up with one of the big kids if they have a bad dream... but he usually gets really angry so i just take care of it... he has no patience in the middle of the night. And then, he sleeps in. As I am writing this at 11am, he is still sleeping... he is a night owl. He stays up late. Especially when he has a play like right now. So I am stuck getting up with the kids in the morning and giving them breakfast and holding the baby all morning because she doesn't feel well and not getting a nap again to day because Justin has a matinee and an evening show. But it will all be over tomorrow... The play will end and I will once again have my helpful husband... and not just the Lazy boy to comfort me.