Thursday, January 10, 2013

Will I ever sleep soundly again??

Okay, so I love sleep.  I have always been a napper and my mother has always bragged what a wonderful sleeper I was as a baby.  There is even a funny story about how when I was two years old, my mother could not find me in our shore house.  She frantically searched the whole house with my grandmother and then apparently freaked out my father in Philadelphia calling him and saying she could not find me.  Can you imagine what was racing through his mind?? This was1979, before cell phones and my poor father must have been frantic on his way down the shore worrying about his precious baby girl(ME).  The story has a cute ending that they found me napping under the bed.  Why I never questioned my mother on why I was unsupervised, I do not know.  Point being....I love sleeping.  After a long day of school in college or maybe when I should have been in class, I could be found curled up on the couch or snuggled in my comfy bed.  Even when I entered the workforce, I still slept to the very last minute and then would nap when I returned home....bonus, I was a teacher and would be home earlier than normal and could squeeze in a nap before dinner.  Also a favorite picture was the pic of me sleeping in funny places, like on a bus.  Fast forward to now, my children are four and six, gone are the days of waking up in the middle of the night for feedings.  One might think that I would be able to resume the dream of uninterrupted sleep in my amazing bed.....FALSE!!!!!!  For some reason unknown to me, my boys are sleep ninjas.  A sleep ninja has the ability to crawl into their parent's room and slip into the bed without waking anyone up.  The sleep ninja inflicts stiff necks to the unsuspecting mother as she tries to compensate for the extra people in her bed with crazy sleeping positions.  If only I could attach bells on them to wake me up.  Not only do I sleep through this, my dog joins in on the fun and hogs the entire bottom of my bed.  All I would like is one night where I do not wake up to my little ninjas in my bed.  If you feel my pain, literally, in my neck....feel free to send money for a bigger bed:)

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