Captain’s Log: Battles Fought Before Coffee Consumption
| April 29, 2025Navigate motherhood. Quest for coffee
5:30 AM EST
Infant awakens for the day. Inserting pacifier does not achieve desired effect.
Confer with husband; request husband reports to kitchen to prepare infant bottle.
Husband agrees. I think.
Return to previous slumber.
5:45 AM EST
Infant is still awake and growing markedly more agitated.
Inquire of husband as to whereabouts of bottle.
Husband has no recollection of this request.
Assume duty of bottle-making.
Report back to infant with bottle at 5:50 AM.
Resume slumber.
6:15 AM EST
Pitter-patter of 4-year-old is heard in the hallway.
Husband begins ambush procedures before 4-year-old can wake 2.5-year-old.
Mission is successful.
4-year-old is deposited into my bed along with infant.
Husband departs for morning prayers.
Return to previous slumber.
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