Adjusting
Despite some ugly nights of too little sleep (and the ugly tempers of my wife and I to go along), life with the boys is becoming easier. After the jaundice and feeding scare, the boys regained their birthweight at two weeks - great news indeed. My Mom had been with us until yesterday, but the next shift of relief has arrived for a week in the form of my wife's best friend.
Tomorrow presents another daunting challenge - I have been summoned for jury duty first thing in the morning. I've dodged this bullet a few times before, but this time they called me in. I have thought for some time I wouldn't mind doing this at some point (see how the system works, civic duty, all of that). But trying to do it now, on too little sleep, with the boys to take care of, is the worst possible timing. Coffee is not an option for me, as I have found that caffine makes the previously mentioned temper often unmanageable - not something to be unleashed around newborns. So tomorrow morning, I plan on reporting exhausted, unshaved, unshowered and unkept (in other words, my usual state these days). I think after informing them I have premature newborn twins at home (I'll have birth certificates in hand) that need my assistance because my wife is still recovering from her c-section surgery, I'm functioning on an average of 4 hours of sleep (not 4 uninterupted hours, mind you), and a daughter in kindergarten that needs picked up at 3:00, they should release me post haste.
Tomorrow presents another daunting challenge - I have been summoned for jury duty first thing in the morning. I've dodged this bullet a few times before, but this time they called me in. I have thought for some time I wouldn't mind doing this at some point (see how the system works, civic duty, all of that). But trying to do it now, on too little sleep, with the boys to take care of, is the worst possible timing. Coffee is not an option for me, as I have found that caffine makes the previously mentioned temper often unmanageable - not something to be unleashed around newborns. So tomorrow morning, I plan on reporting exhausted, unshaved, unshowered and unkept (in other words, my usual state these days). I think after informing them I have premature newborn twins at home (I'll have birth certificates in hand) that need my assistance because my wife is still recovering from her c-section surgery, I'm functioning on an average of 4 hours of sleep (not 4 uninterupted hours, mind you), and a daughter in kindergarten that needs picked up at 3:00, they should release me post haste.
2 Comments:
Good luck! I served jury duty while still childless. I've been summoned twice recently, and I was pregnant both times. Apparently, that's a decent excuse for getting out of it. At this rate, though, I expect another notice soon.
I can identify with the entire post. My twins lost weight until their second week, my temper and that of my wifes is quite on edge, sleeping is a hobby and always interrupted, and jury duty would just be the kicker. Every time I have had to report, the computer randomly selects those in attendance. I have never been selected and therefore never had to come up with creative reasons for why I cannot.
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