When Mama Ain't Happy

Last night I heard an interesting bit of trivia on PBS, which stated that in married couples, when the wife sleeps poorly, BOTH husband and wife tend to be miserable the next day.  I tried not to take this personally.  I did, however, immediately check my house for bugs (and Dr. Phil-style peeping cameras) since I can only assume that someone has observed this trend in my family.

As yet I haven't found anything.

I have, however, slept poorly all week.  I have a cold.  With body aches that feel like I got run over by a large vehicle of some kind.  

Yesterday I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned (more excavation than cleaning if you must know) and by 5pm, the house was FINALLY clean enough to start cleaning.  So I vacuumed.
Then I called my husband and told him to pick up a pizza on the way home from work.  

I did specify 'scant' cheese on our order - and it was soooo delicious I'm skeptical of how scanty that scattering really was.  

The bad news is that Pickle now has an ear infection (unrelated to the pizza, I'm sure... we've all been passing this cold around this week) and was in bed with me last night.  

So I can only assume that my poor husband is going to have a miserable day today.  

At least now we know who to blame for it.

For more info on interpersonal sleep skills (and a little laugh) click here:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/the-daily-need/do-not-operate-this-marriage-while-drowsy/9839/

PS - Other than the pizza last night, our dairy avoidance has been a smashing success.  Mini, Pickle and Yummy are all gravitating toward rice milk quite willingly.  I may be pushing them gently in that direction since I am suspicious of how good soy really is for children in large quantities, and they don't sell coconut milk or almond milk at our Costco.  ($$$)