Tuesday 18 November 2014

dreaming of sleep


We dream of more sleep while we catch those few winks in the morning hours...

Our little boy seems to have forgotten how to sleep like the proverbial baby. He just blinks heavy eyelids unendingly or stares tiredly forever from over my shoulder while I try to sway him off towards the luscious fields of snooze in a slow dance in the dark bedroom.

The other day he was so utterly cranky from exhaustion that the only thing left to do was to go for a ride in the buggy. So we trundled through the deserted streets in town at night - baby finally snoring, and mommy carting him, putting one tired foot in front of the other for two whole hours. It was the last time we did that - with the weather soon to turn this place into Narnia and the town being so quiet and abandoned after 9pm I'd need a big old snowsuit with pepper spray in both pockets...


Since that dingy outing we figured something out after all - we've parked the pram in the bedroom and our little boy sleeps there nicely to the soothing shhhh sound of a detuned radio. As a friend said recently: whatever works...

2 comments:

  1. Exactly - whatever works. Hope he starts sleeping better soon. Our Joona is about 2,5 now and he still only occasionally sleeps through an entire night without waking us up several times. Somehow you just cope with the tiredness :) At least I have a real reason now for not staying up too late.

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  2. I well remember those sleepless nights of buggy pushing at 2am :) I am right there with you in spirit! Xx

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