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Completely and totally exhausted

 I love my daughter with every fibre of my being. Every single cell in my body, every single hair that grows out of my body, every muscle and tendon and vein and artery and bone and nail and skin particle adores her fiercely, endlessly, from head to toe, from front to back, from tip to tail. There is nothing and noone more important to me than her, and I honestly don't think I could love more than I love her. She is my world, my moon, my sun, my galaxy, my stars.  But she drives me, at this point in her life, absolutely bananas. Every evening she won't go to sleep without some kind of almighty battle that involves endless negotiations, usually a lot of tears, debates, pleas, bargaining tactics, it's like some kind of courtroom in this house. Every night she wakes me up at least twice, sometimes a lot more. She usually ends up on the mattress that I have put in her bedroom for ME so that I can fall asleep in her room so she will GO to sleep, and yet still, I don't even g...