Tired Fella!
Pretty grumpy today. I’m not used to it though as i’m generally in various shades of happy. The reason I think is because i’ve been training myself (or more accurately my body) to need less sleep because the babies will be here soon.
I’ve always had between 8 and 9 hours sleep, and if for any reason I lost a decent chunk in a night, there have been a few times i’ve nearly paid dearly by falling asleep on the motorway during the journey home from work. I figure when the twins are here i’m going to lose more than a decent chunk, so rather than them growing up without a father, i’m dropping 1 hours sleep a night per week. Last week i dropped to 7.5 hours a night and yesterday started a further drop to 6.5. Whoa! Jesus I was grumpy this morning.
Speaking of which, Toni is over 30 weeks pregnant now. 36 weeks is generally considered full-term for twins. The hospital have said to expect them any time after 32 weeks though as twins generally appear early… Not long to go at all!
Really excited when I get chance to sit and think about it, but as it goes, I really have lots to do. The nursery is the biggest thing. It’s sort of been a storage room since we moved in, and the knock on effect of emptying that room reverberated throughout the entire house. Everything has to be housed somewhere or binned and in many instances it meant that cupboard rooms, had to be stripped and decorated, walk-in wardrobes had to be built, then the room had to be gutted and now plastered before it can be decorated. We’ve got a front room 5 foot high full of self-assembly nursery furniture that cost nearly £800 that can’t go anywhere until the plaster has dried and the room has been decorated.
The hallway, stairs and landing have needed doing aswell so i’ve just finished decorating that which has given me that valuable feeling of achievement which makes me feel better because it’s like things are getting done you know. At the moment it’s hard to appreciate it because i’ve got my amp, cab and guitar stuff there, which makes it VERY hard for Toni to get in and out of the front door. Not sure what’ll happen about that when the kids arrive actually. That is the only place that stuff can go in our house, and it absolutely can’t go there after they’re born as There isn’t enough space to fit even a car seat, let alone a double pram.