Dreaming of sleep

Note to self: You will someday miss the sweet moments of nursing a babe overnight in the quiet stillness of an otherwise sleeping household. Cradling that sweet bundle in your arms in bed and drifting off to sleep together, a breastfeeding diad.

You will miss having little ones come crawling in to bed for a cuddle after a bad dream. Or because they woke and missed you.

You will sleep again, but until then remember that these moments are special and something you will treasure. Someday. When you are well rested and having to wake sleepy teenagers.

Another One Bites the Dust

We have been picked off one by one in the last week by a really nasty germ.

Last night it got our five-year-old about midnight. It was spectacular: He's got the top bunk. It was a parental nightmare of a clean-up.

He sweetly woke me when he felt sick two more times, then, curiously, another time just to let me know that he woke up and didn't get sick. Unfortunately I'd just nursed baby girl to sleep and he woke her with his chatter to me.

Sleep. You elusive thing.