There was a period of a few months where both of the kids were sleeping well, not much was going on at work, and we were getting a fair amount of sleep. Of course, good sleep makes for boring blogging, and we have thus returned to our roots–not sleeping.

Tara is now on her zillionth ear infection and has been sleeping badly for weeks. Anna is doing no better, having night terrors on a regular basis. I’ve pulled a few near all-nighters in the last couple weeks, between the kids and my job and my other job. I woke up at 4:50am this morning so that I could fly to Portland, spend the day in meetings, and fly home. Lately, I could fall asleep at any given time of day, if I had the chance, and considering the staggering, ever-growing to-do list in front of me, I won’t have the chance any time soon.

On the upside, I plan to order another monolight for my photography. Jennifer says that I seem excited about my day job for the first time in a long while, although there’s a fair amount of trepidation mixed in. I shot a set of photos for our friend M.’s new baby, and they look awesome; M. has a great creative talent, and had some great ideas for photos, and I think I did a good job of helping to realize them. Though I’ve done the shooting, there’s still a fair amount of postprocessing that still needs to happen, and I have to restrain myself from doing it now because there is so much other stuff that I need to be doing in the short term. Hopefully I’ll be done a week or so from now and I’ll post one or two of the pics if she’s ok with it. Also, I’m going to borrow the props and try to shoot Tara the same way. I’m stoked.

If I was less tired, I would have a hard time falling asleep because of all the stress in my life right now, but if there’s one good thing about being tired, it’s that you can fall asleep at the drop of a hat.