Shout out to single parents

How do you single parents do it? I could see if you had some help from family or something, but when you're on your own, how do you do it? Especially with an infant (is she still considered a newborn?)...?

Last night was probably in the top 3 for awful nights for Morgan. Likely it wouldn't have been as bad if A) Adam had been here (he's traveling home from Montreal today) and B) my fatigue wouldn't have clouded my patience. Every time I had her asleep, I'd go to put her down and she'd wake up for all sorts of reasons, not just the ones I asked others about on FB yesterday (who gave me great advice!). It wouldn't have been so bad...but she got up at her normal time of around midnight but instead of going back to sleep, she stayed up long enough for another feeding. Then she was up again at her normal time (5ish) for another feeding despite the extra feeding she had earlier (WTH?). Thankfully she went right down after that feeding. But then I heard her again at 6:40am and since I was all tired and out of it I didn't look at the timer to realize, until AFTER I started feeding her again that I should have tried the nuk first since she had just went to sleep 38 minutes prior. So instead of her usual 2x getting up last night, she was up (in the same amount of time) for 4 feedings. F.O.U.R.

I'm mad. I'm mad and it's stupid but I'm still mad. I'm mad (it's actually jealous) that Adam gets to sleep as long as he wanted to (well, within work limits) all week. I'm mad that he gets to go hunting all weekend and I'm still in charge of the baby. All of these things are compounded by my fatigue, but still, it's how I'm feeling at the moment. I wouldn't want to trade Adam this week b/c I don't know how on earth I'd be away from her for 5 days. It would be impossible and I'd be a mess. But wow, this fatigue is killer. I also realize it didn't help this week that we went almost nowhere b/c of the snowstorm and we saw other adults (outside of a Walmart trip Mon/Tues) for a total of 2 hours this week. I don't even know if we're going to make it to my work luncheon today so she can meet everyone. Right now it's almost 9am and she's sleeping...which makes me think I should put the dogs away and nap right along with her. But if we're going to go, I need to shower now instead. Sigh. What to do.

Off I go to decide. This post is dedicated to all you single parents out there as you are heroes.