Restless in Elk Grove

The madness never ends.  Just when we think they’ll sleep through the night, bamm!  They don’t!  There have been a few exceptions, but not enough to catch up on our sleep.

We have done everything imaginable from filling them with formula and mommy’s milk before sleep, playing with them all day, swaddling them, and even giving them tough love and nothing seems to work.  It doesn’t matter if they get a lot of rest during the afternoon or no rest at all, they just don’t sleep through the night.

Now before you think, ‘it’s going to get better’, please don’t even say or think that.  We have lost hope in that.  We know it’s only been 5 months and almost 2 weeks, but in our minds years have passed.

The lack of sleep is driving us mad!  I’m not sure how much more we can endure.  They are not normal.  Normal would be your baby gets sleepy, she closes her eyes, and falls sleep.

Our definition or normal is, they cry and cry because we think their sleepy.  We feed them, burp them, swaddle them, and rock them to sleep for 10 – 60 minutes or more.  Then maybe, just maybe they’ll fall asleep.  They just refuse to sleep, especially Jasmine.  She is the lightest sleeper on this Earth.  Justice sleeps good, but he hasn’t mastered his bodily functions like Jasmine.  He has to wake himself up just to burn, fart, or day dream.

We are sleepless in Elk Grove.  We are not asking for much, but a little heavenly intervention would be great!  OK and maybe winning the lottery would help too.  Then we could be ‘comfortable’ enough to have someone help us.  They way we see it, if they get sufficient sleep, meaning if they sleep through the night, then we will have the physical, mental, and emotional energy and enthusiasm to care for them as they truly deserve.

Right now, they only get about 50% of our energy and attention because we are so tired.  Our backs hurt, our wrists are sore, and eyes are heavy and we are just thinking about peace and quite.  Actually, we are dreaming of peace and quite.  We don’t know if it’s going to be possible in this lifetime, in our lifetime.  Right now, it’s just plain torture!

We just hope the lack of sleep doesn’t kill us.  We are more careless because of it.  God help us!

When we do muster some energy, then we are able to at least play with them and make them smile.  We smile too, but ours is more of a tired half smile.  We bring them to the mall and out on our errands.  We still hear whispers in the background ‘oh twins’.  Sometimes people actually stop us just so they can take a look.

Here are some pictures of them taken with our iPhones.  They are cute when they want to be.  Their lack of sleep doesn’t seem to effect them at all lol.

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