Sleep log

This weekend my brother-in-law, David, who has no children, was asking me about how much the children affect my sleep. These days we do not have a baby in the house and I know that that is typically the most sleep deprived a parent gets, but Tom and I are still losing sleep to our children's night lives so I thought I would log it for a week on here. I'm not actually good at daily logs, but I thought I would at least give it a try.

Night One

The children were in bed and asleep by 8 PM, or a little after. We are recovering from a holiday weekend, so it was a bit hard for them to settle down. Tom and I went to bed a little after 10 PM, but since I have a hard time shutting down my brain to sleep, I know that I saw 11:00 at least.

Lily had a bad dream around 3 o'clock in the morning. She did not get out of bed, but instead she yelled from her bed "Mom! Mommy! Moooom!" Lily calling for me did not wake me up, but Tom was stirring, and started to sit up in bed, and that's when I woke up. I went up to check on her and got her settled down. We talked about how dreams aren't real and that the house wasn't on fire. We talked about what we would do if the smoke detectors went off and that there was no way that anyone could sleep through their beeping.

About 15 or 20 minutes after I crawled back in bed, the "Mom! Mom! Mom!" started again. I waited Tom out and tried to ignore her for as long as possible. I won. Tom finally rolled out of bed and took care of her. I think he got her a drink of water and tucked her back into bed. It was some time around 3:45 when he went to her and about 4:15 when he came back to bed.

I managed to go back to sleep and my alarm went off at 5:20 so that I could go to the Y to work out. I managed to drag myself out of bed by 5:30. When I arrived home from working out, Drew was awake and in our bed. It was around 6:45, but I have no idea what time he crawled in bed with Tom.

This is a typical night. The characters change, the excuse change, but the amount of sleep we get is generally the same.