Things that go bump in the night!

Isn't it amazing how as a mom you're very intune to the many things that go "bump" in the night? You sleep light enough to hear the slightest little piggy out of bed, you are awake and running for the stairs when its loud "boom" indicating someone's falling out of bed. You sleep with one eye open when your child is sick, so you can listen for the faintest of coughs, or the smallest of sneezes. And as a mom, its just what we do. . .. right? You get trained for it while you're pregnant. You're puking all the time from "morning sickness" that lasts all day, so you don't sleep. You're sore from stretching muscles and an expanding belly, so you don't sleep. Your babies has started to flutter inside your belly for the very first time, and they're most active at night and you stay up waiting to feel that flutter again, so you don't sleep. You lay awake dreaming of what they'll look like, what they'll sound like, who will they resemble? So you don't sleep. You have to PEE a million and one times during the night, so you don't sleep. All training for that precious baby right???? It trains you to sleep light, and enjoy all that parenthood has to offer.

But in our house, the most common thing to go "bump" in the night is ME!!! I'm four years out (well, almost!) of my last pregnancy, and I still have to pee a million times a night! When will this EVER end!! And of course, as a mom its never as simple as a trip to the potty. Its always "well, as long as I'm up I'll go check on the kids and make sure they're covered. Or, since I'm up the dogs have to go out. Or I lay there thinking about the day before, or the day ahead. Gone are my days of having to get up to feed a baby several times a night, and no one is currently sick so we're good there too. And yet night after night after night I'm awake.

I figured it out. The last time I got a real honest to goodness night of sleep all the way through was the night the twins were born, and I still had the catheter in and didn't have to get up! I remember waking up and thinking to myself "Wow! THAT'S what it feels like to sleep all the way through the night without interruption!!!"


I know its all worth it for my beautiful, amazing little people. But I hope that some day I can get past the point of needing to get up a million times, and feel honestly and truly refreshed in the morning after a good full night of sleep!!!