bad precedent

I still can't sleep, so I got Spencer up for a little midnight snuggle. He's not a snuggler, but if I catch him while he's sleepy and not fighting it, he'll lay on me and rub my arm like a true snuggler. I know it's bad precedent, but he's such a sweetie when he forgets how much he wants to get down and play. The biggest mistake I made was picking him up 6 hours after he went to bed. He was still sleepy, but not tired enough to just fall asleep on me while we rocked. He laid there and rubbed my arm and pinched my elbow and I got to hold him close for a few minutes. Then I realized we both need some sleep so I laid him back down with his cookie monster and he hugged him and smiled at me.He's still awake (I left him about 10 minutes ago) but he's just babbling to himself (and maybe a little to Cookie) until he drifts back off to sleep.

He's such a sweetheart.

under the influence

I should know better than to have a cup of coffee at 8:30 pm. I don't drink a lot of coffee, and I do decaf more often that not. Since I don't really drink soda anymore and only rarely partake in tea, I've become fairly sensitive to caffeine. At 9:45 I couldn't figure out why I was wide awake.

D'oh.

Off to do some reading (The Falls by Joyce Carol Oates).

oh, the comfort!

I can't wait to get home. I ordered this on Monday, which will likely mean that I need new sheets to accomodate it. I'm so excited! I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control ... okay, enough of the digression. Seriously, folks, I can't wait to sleep tonight.

Oh jealousy, look what you've done ...

Spencer is going through a phase where his daddy is his favorite person. This isn't bad, except that when we're both home he won't play with me but he climbs all over daddy and gives him kisses. He cries when I give him kisses.

It kind of hurts my feelings.

saved by the bell (or not)

The past two nights the power has gone out in the middle of the night. I would generally relish the extra bit of sleep that I could blame on someone else, however luckily (?) both nights either Christen or I have woken up and noticed the issue before we were late. Christen woke up at 5am on Monday, reset the alarm and came back to bed. Last night, I woke up at 2:30am, noticed the blinking light and reset the clock. Now, why we don't have a battery backup in our alarm clock in this day and age I don't know. However, I can say it's a 5-year-old, $8 clock. I can't expect miracles. I would like to be able to expect more sleep though.

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I wrote that on Tuesday, and Tuesday night I set my phone alarm just in case. Wouldn't you know, the power didn't go out! I don't know what I'm going to do about sleep when the clocks change.

a new start (again)

I've been thinking about changing blogs for awhile. I don't know why; I don't technically need a new start. I had been with my last blog for 22 months with 158 posts (159 once I post my last post there). My blog before that had 485 posts over 34 months. There was a good reason for the change that time. Got married, pregnant (although I didn't know I was pregnant when I changed blogs), and I had a falling out with my best friend. I started a new chapter.

I think this change is just for me. I needed a change; a new look. Something new to look at. My usual readers will hopefully follow me here. Truthfully, I don't have a lot of regular readers. Maybe the transition will help that. But I change for me.

You won't find me here.

I'm moving again. Please follow me over to wordpress! I don't know why; I just needed a change of scenery.

The fact that blogrolling has started being such a pain in the butt has probably helped me make up my mind though.

Cheers!

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