Sleep deprived and hungry

Eliminating dairy from my diet is a little harder than I realized. It's easy to cut out the obvious dairy, it's the hidden dairy that is getting me. I must not have read ingredients close enough, cause Trevor was miserable Saturday and the rash on his bum cropped back up. I'm craving chocolate and can't have any. I want a tuna melt, but can't have it. It's a big challenge for self control, and resisting tempation. Yesterday we went to Burger King. I made sure to order my Whopper Jr. without cheese, but I was craving onion rings. I told James as we ordered it that the evening would be stinky, because onion rings tear up my gut. I figured I couldn't have cheese, but by gosh I wanted some onion rings. Yeah, bad choice. I suffered for it all evening. My gas I can handle, but not poor Trevor. He cried and cried all evening, arching his little back, trying to get the gas out. I should have known better. I need to remember tonight when I go shopping to buy mylicon drops.

Yesterday was a day of challenges. The boys were ornery, and I just wanted a break. I didn't get one. Then Josh decided to fight bedtime, finally crashing around 2am. He then showed up in my bed, laying at the bottom across my feet, at 3am. I wish they made a bigger bed than a king size. Sharing a bed with a husband, 3 boys, 2 cats and our 100lb lab means I wake up tired and sore. Normally Goose sleeps in his kennel and Josh sleeps in his own bed, but last night it just didn't work out that way. Goose was sleeping in his kennel and I forgot to close his door. He waits til we fall asleep then jumps onto the bed, and once he's there he doesn't want to move. Thankfully he sleeps on James' side of the bed. Seth still needs "the mole" to sleep. He weaned but hasn't given up the mole on my hip that he twiddled while nursing, so he has to be touching me and be able to locate the mole throughout the night. Josh, seeing that there was no room to lay normally on the bed, chose to plop his pillow on my feet and lay across the bottom of the bed. Seth on one side, Trevor on the other, Madden on my pillow, Devin below Trevor and Josh on my feet. All on one side of a King size bed. I'm dragging today, my back and neck ache, and I'm praying for a nap at some point.

It's funny, sleep deprived and hungry as I may be, I love being a Mom. There's nothing like waking up to a sweet little baby cooing for num nums, and a little Seth saying "Hi Mom!". Josh is still sleeping off his late night and he looks so peaceful.