Update

My newest entry has been over a week in coming but not for any lack of ideas.  When I first started this blog, I was a father of one with two on the way.  I now am a father of three girls, who I will refer to by the names of Sonia (my two year old), Ally and Beth (the newborn twins).

The reason for the delay after “Focus on the Small” is the lack of REM sleep.  I know it’s a cliché for people to joke about getting no sleep with babies in the house, but (a) it’s true, and (b) when you’re trying to write something meaningful, it’s a little hard to revise for coherence when you don’t have it in your head.  I’m lucky that my daughters don’t wake up crying or screaming, but since they are breast milk-fed, we’ve got to feed them every three hours.

It’s funny; when Sonia was born, I was still working full-time.  My wife was on leave from work, so she shielded me as much as possible from the late night feedings and changings (for which I was quite grateful).  In this house, we don’t cling to old-fashioned “woman” and “man” roles: we tend to look at all the tasks that need to get done and just try to divide them up equally and reasonably.  Of course, that even division leads to my current situation:

·         We’re both home full-time for the next couple of months

·         We have TWO newborn babies to care for this time

·         We also have a two year old who is insisting on plenty of attention

Therefore:

·         I haven’t gotten more than four straight hours of sleep in a while...

It has been a little frustrating (not getting to share my thoughts with my readers), but I’m trying not to push myself too hard.  As my wife reminded me, we’re still only in the first month, so it is going to get easier.

So thanks for reading my entries so far, and I look forward to sharing more with you this week.  If any of you would like to post a comment, please feel free.