I am exhausted today. Why, you ask?
Because nearly HOURLY last night, there was just HYSTERICAL
crying coming over the baby monitor. It wasn’t the kind of cry you can just
ignore. But somehow, every time I got downstairs to L’s room to calm her
down, she had calmed herself and was sleeping soundly. But like clockwork, an
hour or so later the crying would be back and I’d go back down, and she’d be
calm by the time I got there. I barely slept.
I got her up this morning and she wanted to sit on the
potty. While we’re in the bathroom sitting about two inches apart, we hear
hysterical baby crying over the monitor again! L and I just looked at
each other fully wide eyed and she finally spoke up “Momma! That’s a BABY!” Uh
yeah…it is. What’s it doing IN YOUR ROOM!?
Then we hear people talking in whispers. I’m seriously
creeped out and trying to think of the best plan of action to get me and the
naked two year old out of that bathroom without being detected. I was about to
call the police but I realized: our baby monitor is picking up the neighbor’s
newborn baby! We must have the same monitor!
So I am exhausted today not from taking care of my kids all
night but because I was up attempting to care for the neighbor’s baby all
night.
I’m THAT dedicated to the institution of motherhood.