...to give me some advice on that ever-elusive issue in my life right now-- SLEEP. Oh, just typing the word makes my eyelids droop. I miss it so much right now, I'm like a guy crawling through the desert dreaming about water. Let's just say that my biggest dream is for 5 straight hours of uninterrupted sleep without a child attached to my bosom. Doesn't that sound like heaven?
Okay, okay, it's just the sleep-deprived person in my head writing those complaining words. I have nothing to complain about. I have an amazingly healthy (read: HUGE and growing more every day!) child who has an amazing appetite (nurses A LOT) and is showing his personality more and more each day (nickname: guy smiley). But here's the thing. I love plans. I love them even more than I love sleep. And right now I'm traveling down a plan-less road. I'm at a complete loss trying to figure out what the next few weeks and months will hold in terms of our sleeping arrangements.
I need advice about how to (eventually, not sure when) get the two little ones to sleep in the same room. Our little abode has three bedrooms. The best configuration we could come up with is this: J, the maniac 7-year-old, has his own small room with most of the upstairs toys, hubby and I are currently sharing our room (and later in the night, our bed) with the 2-month-old and his co-sleeper/bassinet, and H, our fiery 20-month-old, has a small room with her crib and another crib that the baby will someday occupy. I want to try to assemble a semi-plan about when and how that will happen.
So here's where I need your help. I know there are actual people reading my blog. (And that is ULTRA EXCITING to me!) And there are even some people I don't even know reading these silly little words that I write. Now I am calling upon you all for help. If you have children close in age, share with me how you worked nighttime routines and sleeping arrangements. Or maybe you shared a room with a sibling from a young age, and you remember something about how that worked out. Or maybe you have no experience whatsoever, but you enjoy giving out advice. Guess what? I'm actually soliciting advice- any advice, I'm desperate to hear stories. I think I just need some reassurance that someday, SOMEDAY, my children will all go to bed and sleep for several hours without needing me. And that they can do that in the same room without screaming each other awake all night. Ugh. Can you tell I'm just a wee bit nervous?
Got any advice for me? Click that little link that says comments down there and type away, my friend. I need whatever help I can get!
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