Paving Miss Daisy

This post is not so much about what Collin has been doing but more about the long-term effects of sleep deprivation. I'll be the first to admit that things are not too bad. I've heard stories about babies that wake up every hour all night. We ARE lucky with his sleeping schedule. He will fall asleep around 10 or 11, sleep until 1 or 2, then sleep again until 4 or 5. The 4 or 5 AM one is the BIG one because that is when Andrea needs to feed him while also pumping. He starts crying, Andrea gently wakes me (with a kick) and asks if I wouldn't mind changing him. I get up and change him while Andrea gets herself hooked up to the milking machine. Then I hand her the baby and she carefully hooks him to one boob while the milking machine is going after the other. I go back to bed, but don't really sleep because I know that in about 20 minutes, they have to be moved back into bed and the milk has to be properly stored in their ever-so-special-bags and frozen in their special milk-freezer. After that, Collin may doze for another hour or 2, may sleep hard until 8 or may not go back to sleep at all. Only he knows and he doesn't tell us ahead of time. This may not sound too bad and really it's not - It's manageable and we are both able to function, but the human body needs 6-8 hours of solid sleep every night and that aint happening! It catches up and may cause a touch of delerium during waking hours.

A few years ago we were given the books THE COMPLETE FARSIDE by Gary Larson. A huge, 2 volume collection of every single Far Side cartoon. It's quite entertaining and I pulled one volume out a few weeks ago and Andrea and I both found ourselves flipping through it whenever we would sit on the couch. This is OK for brief periods of time, but there are over 3000 Far Side cartoons and you should really limit your exposure to a few a day at max. The other night, after making about half way through the 2nd volume, I had a very vivid dream that went something like this: Morgan Freeman is sitting atop one of those big road-paving machines with a huge smile on his face while Miss Daisy is being pulled into the rollers. The caption reads "Paving Miss Daisy". I have not seen that movie in at least 10 years and have no idea where this came from, but in my dream I was convinced that this was THE Far Side cartoon that should have been drawn but never was and Gary himself, whom I've never met, was in the dream and in total agreement. I have no idea what Gary even looks like, but if any of you know him please pass along my dream. Meanwhile I am going to put those books away and take a nap!

UPDATE: After reading this post Andrea told me that, while in college, Gary Larson came to her school and gave a presentation (on exactly WHAT- I have no clue). She said that one of the things that she remembers about his presentation is that he was thankful for having editors to keep him (mostly) out of trouble. One cartoon he submitted, but was ultimately rejected, was of a group of surgeons gathered around an operating table working on a person while a dog was sitting next to the table begging. HA! I think maybe the editors would have shut down the Paving Miss Daisy idea too.