Sleep is Good

The sad thing is that, as is generally the case, given the opportunity I could have gone to sleep a couple hours before the time came for the girls to start disrupting it.  It’s 3:15 as I type this sentence, and I haven’t really been to sleep yet for any length or comfort level.

Sadie did her nightly migration to my sleeping spot while Deb was sitting there and I was entertaining the baby.  Then Valerie woke up screaming and after a bit that meant my going in the bedroom with her.  But this time she was uncharacteristically restless.  Eventually she was able to fall asleep, more or less, snuggled against me, on the floor rather than in her bed.  I proceeded to be unable to sleep to speak of in Sadie’s bed.  Apparently this has passed, as I am trying to fall asleep on my keyboard all of a sudden.

Now I see that Sadie migrated out of the office and, presumably, into the big bed with Deb and Henry.  Now do I take my normal spot in the office, where I will sleep best, or do I go back in the bedroom with Valerie so if she wakes up again I am there?  Decisions, decisions.

Seriously, though, if I am ready to grab a book and lay down at 10:00, I ought to start doing so.  That gets a nap in before the antics begin and gives me more chance of getting up productively at, say, 6:00.

1. Now you can understand a bit better why when my kids were young we were didn’t like to disturb the 7 pm bed time we had gotten them use to. Not that it would have would have hurt to have them up later now and then.

   Posted by Wayne  on  12/27  at  05:27 AM  from  Ohio

2. There has to be a reason the girls are not sleeping thru.Have you tried playing quiet music in the background or a TV playing? Pam always had a problem sleeping. To this day she does not require a lot of sleep.Also to this day she sleeps with the TV going in her room! Have you tried not allowing them to sleep anywhere but their room? Maybe they need to have a set time every night plus when they get up you bring them right back. Your back is going to kill you I would think sleeping on the floor. Just some suggestions. I dreaded bedtime with Pam however I stuck to a certain time and she had to stay in her room.

   Posted by  on  12/27  at  08:16 AM  from 

3. The problem isn’t so much the bedtime.  All of this started when they HAD a strict bedtime.  They’re still within spitting distance of that, for very reluctant Valerie values of spitting distance.  We’re famously semi-obnoxious about it and more than once have offended people over it.  When it all went to hell was when Sadie started waking up screaming in the middle of the night.  Anybody know a way to keep a 3 year old from having perfectly age-appropriate nightmares, or wants to buy us a big enough house that they can have separate rooms and not disturb each other, let it rip.

   Posted by Deb  on  12/27  at  09:26 AM  from  hell
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