Eldest Son has not been sleeping of late. He has a cold and it impedes his breathing which wakes him up. Last night he was up at 2:30. My wife lay down with him and he didn't fall asleep until about 5:30. He was up promptly at 7:30. He's exhausted which means very bad behavior. He's hitting everyone and crying. He's so out of sorts, he doesn't know what he wants. My poor wife is in tears from exhaustion. This has been going on for a week straight. I don't know how much more strain she (or I) can take. This is truly unfair. Even with family trying to help, it's still too much. Today he wanted Mommy and only Mommy. She could not rest. If she left his side, he had a meltdown and continued until she sat with him or held him. We are truly desparate. This has happened before and the strain is overwhelming. I feel like I'm being tested and I'm failing. My new job has me over an hour from home. I feel stressed and trapped and can't help either my son or my wife. I don't know where to turn.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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