I WANT MORE SLEEP! Alex was up crying again last night and since Luc spent all day yesterday crying unless he was actively being held or fed I didn’t really feel up to dealing with more fussiness. I’d already stayed up kinda late reading so when the screeching started I had barely dropped off to sleep…I think maybe I need more Grace as much as I need more sleep.

I wanted to start a short book yesterday and get it finished so I picked up Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. I only read about half because in addition to all the stress mentioned earlier, the boys only took a one-hour nap! (Normal is at least two.) It is an odd but kind of amazing little book and I’m looking forward to finishing it today.

Book club was great though small. It was just MB and I and we easily reached a consensus on preachy children’s books. The Secret Garden wasn’t terrible but we deplore the trend. Our next book is Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude. Chosen because she and I are both headed to the Hermitage next weekend. We even settled on our next book already. We’ll be reading Aesop’s Fables. I guess we are extra decisive when it’s just two of us. Now it is COFFEE TIME.