Greeting from the Late Shift

It's 2 AM, and we are all very much awake as I write this. Not the kind of awake you might expect at 2 AM, the lazy, soporific, barely awake, awake. No. This is a day is night and night is day awake. The kind no one really talks about when returning from China. Mark and Gretchen, I'm sure you understand this well.

Okay, let me begin by saying that jetlag sucks. Really Really sucks. Jetlag sucks for adults, and if you are 9 months old it is just ridiculous. It is also something that no one talks about and for which we were totally unprepared. (Chris B. if you are reading this, please devote a waiting families meeting to jetlag coming home please)

So we wake up around 2 PM or so and have a normal morning with breakfast and a little playtime




Then libby likes to take several naps and really wakes up around 10 PM...YEE HAW. Then it's party party party until about 4 AM. You see, Libby was a very routine girl, and 4 AM Pacific time is 7 PM in Beijing her bedtime. When we were in china, we enjoyed a wonderful routine with Bath, bottle and bed at 7 PM. We have that same routine, but we have crossed the international dateline. Bummer.

Unfortunately, it seems there are only 2 ways to really overcome jetlag. First, go back to china. But for a lot of reasons including immigration, and grandparents who would probably kill us before we got to the airport. so that leaves plan B. You simply begin waking up early, no matter how much sleep you got the night before, and force yourself into the new schedule. No problem for Kris and I, but how would YOU like to wake a beautiful very peaceful sleeping baby? But tomorrow morning that's just what we are going to do, like it or not. We can't go back to China right now anyway.....our visas have expired.

Good night, and good luck.