It Was So Worth The Pain
Posted By jayna on June 29, 2009
9:45
That’s what time the husband and I slept in until on Saturday morning.
Ah, sleep. Glorious sleep.
Sometime last week, we were sitting around the in-laws kitchen table when someone mentioned Miss E sleeping over their house. I’m fairly certain it started in a completely joking manner, but we jumped on that right quick. Friday night rolled around and we had dinner over there, hanging around till just after 8, instead of rushing out the door before 7 like normal.
Yes, I know. What jet setters we are, enjoying a night of babysitting AT the in-laws. I know you’re all jealous.
E was enjoying a bath in their gigantic jacuzzi tub when we left. She was only an hour behind her normal schedule and we went on our merry way, trusting the in-laws to put her to bed at a reasonable hour.
Nope.
After our gloriously full night of sleep (apparently MJ will sleep all morning if she isn’t woken up by E bounding into our room at 5:45 yelling “Hi! Hi! Hi!”), we headed over to pick up E. Instead of a perky and cheerful toddler, we found ourselves with a fragile, emotional, extra special clingy and ridiculously cranky one. Piece by piece, we figured out that not only did she go to bed waaaaaay late, but she was up twice in the middle of the night and woke them up at the crack of dawn.
There is nothing but pain and suffering to follow a toddler only sleeping for 5 hours at night. But it was so worth it to roll over and see that 9:45 in the morning. So worth it that I’m plotting how to do this every weekend while we’re close enough to ship her off to the grandparent’s.
I feel the same way about sleepovers w/ grandparents. So worth it in the moment, but Mommy and Daddy pay BIG TIME the next day!
You are a freakin' genius. 9:45? That sounds like heaven right there.
The more she does it, the more she'll be used to it and sleep better when she's there.
That's my theory! Hope future sleepovers go better. :)
I hope future sleepovers are a little more on track LOL…but I am glad you had an awesome sleep in!!! Those mornings are so few and far between LOL.