Well, today is the start of Daylight Saving Time. As painful as losing an hour of sleep is, today marks an important day in our journey. But, before I get into that, I want to share how my night went of losing that precious hour.
My sister had a hysterectomy on Wednesday, March 7th due to endometriosis. The doctor was able to save her ovaries but had to remove her appendix and a portion of her small bowel because of the disease. Amazingly she was able to go home the next day. She was having a rough day yesterday so, since my hubby got called into work early, Ethan and I decided to hop in the truck and go see her. When our kids get together, we can’t help but laugh so I’m not sure if that was helping or hurting my sister, but we enjoyed our visit regardless. It’s really hard to leave but we had to make the 1.5 hour drive back home before it got too late, especially since we were going to lose that hour of sleep and couldn’t sleep in since we had church the next morning.
Ethan is much like his momma, in the fact that if it’s dark outside it usually doesn’t take him long to fall asleep in the vehicle. I turned on a DVD and figured since it was already almost 2 hours past his bedtime that he would be asleep in no time. NOPE…not tonight!! He never did go to sleep the whole way home and when we did get home, he was raring to go. So now it’s 3 hours past his bedtime and times a tickin’. We read stories, said prayers and amazingly he went to bed without a fuss. In fact, I never heard a peep out of him.
I stayed up late till my hubby made it home from work, because a fellow officer had been shot in another county and I couldn’t go to sleep without holding him in my arms first. So we finally got to bed about 2…which was really 3 now. Then at 4:30, Ethan was awake crying and once I heard his feet hit the floor I knew I had to get out of bed and go see what the problem was. A leaky diaper…ugh! After a quick change I laid next to him waiting for him to go back to sleep but instead he was fighting his sleep. I got up even though I knew he was going to get upset and left the room anyway. As I stood at his door listening to his cries, I thought to myself, “maybe just maybe if I explain to him that it’s still night-night time and that momma was gonna go night-night in her bed” that he would understand. So that’s just what I did…went back in, said prayers again and then said to him that I loved him and was gonna go night-night in my bed but would see him in the morning. I walked out and he barely made a sound, and it was only for less than a minute until he was quite as a mouse. Ahhh…back to bed. Then the alarm goes off and it’s time to start the day. Off to church, home for lunch and then to our amazement, we all took a 2 hour nap.
Ok, back to business…lol! Last cycle I took Mucinex from chart day 7 till ovulation and what a difference it made. So today marked chart day 7 of this cycle, so we decided to go with what worked last time and pray for the same results, with the exception of it being our take home baby. I’m so excited about this cycle but scared at the same time.
Regardless, days are getting longer and spring is right around the corner.
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