Chonology of My Night

Hopefully yours went something like "went to bed at 10:30, woke up at 6:30". Mine usually does...it's just the early thing, but usually sleeping does take place until 5. Three night ago I went to bed at 9:30. Woke up at 5:30. Nothing eventful happened all night. It was a blissful night.

Due to our hot water being out since Tuesday and our landlord finally sending a "plumber" last night got started late...I still have no idea when Taylor actually made it to bed. Sometime before 12:19.

10:08 Get in bed.

12:19 Matthias got in my bed (He's been sick the last couple days and that's what sick kids do. At least mine anyway.) Notice Taylor is now in bed also. Rough sleep ensues.

1:04 Matthias decides to go back to his bed. I tuck him in.

2:42 Hannah wakes up. Um, no. Not going to happen. You are fully capable of sleeping through the night. Here's your binkie. Go back to sleep.

2:45 Hannah poops a big, runny, nasty poop. Ignore me now Mom. MmWhahaha.

2:57 I give in, Hannah gets a bottle (which Taylor kindly prepares)

3:09 Back to bed

3:47 James standing at the side of my bed, "Mom, I need to go potty." He then walks to the bathroom. Did I really need to know about that?

3:50 Hall light turns on. What is going on? I already peed in the bed. Yes, I did need to know. (James has wet the bed a total of about 8 times. 7 of them since we moved here.) Since you're so short we can just unfold the bottom of the bed and you can sleep at the foot. Remind me your sheets are wet in the morning.

3:57 Back in bed. At which point I begin composing this blog post.

4:13 I'm still awake?

4:37 Did I ever fall back asleep yet?

5:10 Chair scraping across the kitchen floor. (this is fairly standard as Matthias always gets himself a yogurt upon waking.)

5:35 Chair scraping again...totally waking me up from a dream where I am a high school girl again and just called a boy to ask him to a dance. But he wasn't home. Now I'll never know if he really wasn't home or if he was avoiding me...Apparently in the past twenty five minutes Taylor has already gotten Matthias twice. Put him on the recliner with a pillow and blanket and told him he has to wait until 6 to have a yogurt (what is 6 Dad?).

5:36 Matthias gets in bed with Taylor.

5:43 Matthias gets out of bed with Taylor.

5:44 At which point I throw in the towel and get up to let the man recovering from surgery and now a nasty, gross infection at the incision site to get some more rest. (I have to pack and change the bandaging in/on the infection. I am very bad with yucky things. They make me nauseous and light headed.)

Now if we glance back over this chronology we see two thing, first) I am a chronic clock checker (with a great memory in the middle of the night...these times are all accurate) and second) the first two hours (10:08 to 12:19) are the longest span of continuous sleep throughout the night. And that's not counting falling asleep time. Although honestly if I was in bed at 10:08 I was probably asleep at 10:09. It's just after 4 am that I have a hard time getting back to sleep...because I know that chair scrap is coming soon.

A few weeks ago my SIL pregnant with her first said, "I'm so tired. When does that stop?" I laughed. Welcome to Motherhood.