The problem is, once you get a taste, you want more. You start sneaking around, trying to get more. You grit your teeth to get through the craving, glancing at the clock, wondering when you are going to get more.
Last night I went to sleep at 10:30 PM. I woke at 1:44 AM for a bathroom run. Then I went back to sleep and slept until 7:00 AM. Then I pumped and went back to sleep until 9.
It was heaven.
Auntie Lisa, may the Lord bless her mighty soul, offered me this gift for my birthday for the second year in a row. She stayed with the boys overnight while Stewart and I took a holiday. This time we drove an hour south to the fair town of Laguna Beach. We stayed at an inn right on the beach. It cost a pretty penny but it was cheap for that area, and you get what you pay for, because the room was decidedly not charming. However, the bed was comfortable, the location was perfect, and the hotel provided beach chairs and towels. All I had to bring was my Harry Potter novel and sunscreen.
When parents of young children say they’re going away for the night to sleep, haha, people chuckle with them and secretly think, “Yeah, they’re going to get it on!” But seriously, folks, I was all about the sleeping. I feel so much better. I wouldn’t say I feel like new, because the only other thing we did besides all of that nothing was eat. I felt like the girl in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” who turns into a blueberry. Bloated, eyes bulging. She had to be rolled to the juicing department.
I was excited to return home and see my sweet squishy baby and my precocious toddler. They were both napping when we arrived, so we got the debriefing from Auntie Lisa (the report was good) and greeted each boy as he woke up.
Less than one hour later, Stewart and I were both exhausted again. It’s a happy tired, but still too strong for me to pull out the camera and share the few pictures we took on our holiday (in contrast to last year’s travel story – one more kid makes all the difference). In light of how good I feel when I am well rested, I wanted to resolve to go to bed earlier so I can wake more refreshed, but then I remembered that I get most of my stuff done, including my writing, after they go to bed.
There’s got to be a compromise here somewhere. Maybe I can just write in my sleep.
Glad you had a nice night away. Hearing you on the “only able to get things done after child is asleep thus mama never gets enough sleep” thing! Are you surviving the crazy wildfires I’m reading so much about?
Are you a fellow Scorpio? My birthday (34) is today. Maybe that is part of why I like you and I haven’t even met you!
Mel