Jun 22 2009
Sleep… You mean you actually sleep?
I don’t know about how things go in your house but in our house bedtime is a joke! It’s funny I see moms asking questions like “when did your little one sleep on their own” or “when did your little one start sleeping through the night?” My response is always the same… “You mean kids actually sleep on their own and wait a minute they even sleep through the night!” Someone is pulling my leg!
I guess when sleep manuals were being handed out to babies my kids missed that day. I kid you not my kids do not sleep, well okay my 11 year old has started sleeping through the night and doesn’t come into my room at night wanting to sleep with me but I promise you that this is literally something that just recently happened! It’s okay though, no really it’s okay because I have come to peace with the fact that I will not sleep until my girls are probably 11 or 12 just like their brother… wait what am I talking about then I’ll be having to stay awake to make sure no boys sneak around the house because yes kids are seriously starting this whole dating thing too early… well that’s another topic for another day.
My answer to the no sleep rule… I work. Yes I work from my home office from midnight or earlier until 5 or 6 am, I mean really if I have to be awake why not make money for it! Honestly I have tried everything, they all go to bed at 10:00 every night, I read to them, I make sure they have gone to the bathroom and are all tucked in but trust me the minute I walk out of the room I’ll hear… “mommy come tuck me in” or “mommy sissy won’t talk to me” so after going into their room a hundred times they finally fall asleep around 12 or so only to wake back up a million times throughout the night. So if anyone knows how to get kids to sleep through the night please enlighten me because this is one topic I’m doomed for disaster on.
