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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not necessarily looking for solutions, and merely writing about it into the ether helps me pass the time better than scrolling whatever, so:

My toddler, not for the first and probably not the last time, as she's done several times in the past week, woke up in the wee hours of the night and had been up since. Requests water, and won't take it when offered. Asks for potty after just going, planks when taken. Stays quiet for whole minutes at a time and I almost believe she's asleep, but then she'll pop up and say something cute but soooo frustrating. Pokes at me, makes random noises....

If I try to sleep she bounces on me. If I leave her room, she screams, and everyone else in the house (including her older sister) is liable to wake up. Her sister sleeps through it, amazingly, but husband doesn't. If we're over at family's house, then everyone wants to ask what's wrong.

And after a while of this, especially if she wakes me up in the wrong part of my sleep cycle, I feel like crap, and I can't control my emotions very well.

I suspect the phone screen doesn't help. But with it I at least I can sometimes commiserate via text with a friend who has similar problems, or do something other than wallow.  But mostly all of this makes me want to beat my head against the wall or tear my hair out (why don't they have an emoji like that?).

That's all, really. 
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