tight squeeze

we hosted the peps group at our house last night. our facilitator didn't bother to tell us that there was going to be a new family bringing the group up to 13 adults and 6 babies to squeeze nto a room in our tiny house! sheesh. it was a good discussion night though. we're all getting a bit more comfortable with each other i think. so comfortable that one of the moms called about a half hour before she arrived to ask if there was a private room she could use for her baby since she was trying to keep him on a sleep schedule. i said sure and raced around to get the guest room where i'd tossed all the laundry and miscellaneous crap cleaned up for her. she arrived with a boombox and a cd of white noise for him. it didn't work though...she spent 45 minutes trying to get him to sleep and then finally gave up and joined us. apparently she's been reading a bunch of baby sleep books...it just seems to be stressing her out. almost every parent last night complained about being soooo tired and exhausted and barely able to function. i didn't want to say it, but i feel great! i mean i was tired waking up with clara last night but it's more of an inconvenient tired than the debilitating tired that these people were explaining. i am so lucky. hopefully it is helping that i don't have any expectations for clara in terms of sleep. i am just happy that she does it. but i'm feeling like a bit of a slacker...i should start reading about more ways to interact with her when she's awake. i've been singing to her and playing with her a bit and talking to her (and feeding her of course!)...but there is only so much you can do. and of course i still like my me time and offloading her to her swing for some quiet time. i want to get the most out of the time we do spend hanging out. the mom that's reading all the sleep books is not only doing peps but also another moms group plus doing all these mom & baby exercise things she read about in a book. guess i could try something like that. emily & i have been walking greenlake for the past couple of days...but clara sleeps the whole time. i don't feel like i really need any other mom interaction. maybe i do...i dunno. i'm hoping to get together with the girls from my childbirth class more...we'll see if that happens.