Just a few things that I have learned this week. Thought I’d pass along…

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
As in, just because you have a free drink coupon at Starbucks, don’t let your frugal side get all greedy and agree to a triple-shot (it’s free after all!) of espresso in your drink. I’m sure the Starbucks barista was just being helpful, and I was just thinking of getting the biggest bang for my (free!) buck…but a triple shot of espresso is enough to send anyone right over the jittery edge. And the crash is so not worth it, especially when you have very little sleep for the next two nights in a row. (See below)

Just because your kids are out of the “baby-no-sleep-stage,” doesn’t mean you are going to have long, sleep-filled nights.
And even worse than one very-little-sleep night is two back-to-back sleepless nights. Addison has been having ridiculous, gushing, half-hour long nosebleeds and we have been doing the round of doctors, blood work, and have an appointment with a pediatric ENT specialist tomorrow trying to get to the bottom of them. It wouldn’t be so worrisome, since she has had them occasionally in the past, but the amount of blood she has lost (OMG! the blood!!), the frequency (three in one day!) of the bleeds, and the fact that they are all accompanied by headaches that is all very troublesome. So needless to say, even when she does get back to sleep, I’m still lying awake filled with worry and angst.

No matter how you try to schedule it, every important thing will always fall within the same week.
And of course, that will be the week your baby falls sick, too. It is Murphy’s Law, right?