Precious Sleep

As always sleep is a precious commodity around here. Between the holidays, M, stress and the unfortunate events of the past couple of weeks, there is not a lot of sleep to be had.

The last couple of days we were in Nanaimo. We went down Friday after work to stay with Glenn's mom. Saturday was the Remembrance for his dad and was a lovely, long, sad, exhausting day. One of those days that no one really wants to have because it means you're saying goodbye but at the same time there were beautiful, funny and touching moments that you're so grateful to have experienced. By the time the day was done it was about 9:30pm and we were on the road home with a napless child who was well past his bed time. Which means he promptly fell asleep in the car for the ride home. It was a white knuckled drive home for me though. It had started raining at some point in the evening and on the highway it was coming down pretty hard. I hydroplaned a few times and there was a gigantic puddle that I really thought was going to send us off the road. However, since I was going pretty slow to start we were okay. Definitely one of the more nerve racking drives I've had though.

We got home about 11:30 pm and naturally M woke up as soon as we pulled in to the driveway. This meant that I spent another hour and a bit convincing him to go back to sleep in his own bed. Another long night for me but he did sleep solidly until 7:30 am so that was a plus. Sunday he spent the day a bit on the cranky side and had a long nap. I actually had to wake him up from his nap so that he wouldn't sleep all day.

Imagine my surprise last night when he went to bed late but fairly painlessly and slept through the whole night. Not only did he sleep all night but when I ignored his crying at 6 am he went back to sleep until 8. This makes me wonder if maybe he is starting to catch up on all that missed sleep and we are ready to go back to some sort of normalcy. At least until the end of this week when we muck him up again with a trip to Nanaimo for Christmas. I figure I'll take what solid sleep days I can and deal with the rest later.