Sleep is Magic

I am thrilled to report that after 2 1/2 years, our entire family slept through the night*. Like 10 hours slept through the night. Nick and I feel like different humans. We actually feel human this morning, for the first time in our parenting career. We have had a night or two off here and there when the children are with Grandparents, but typically the kiddoas are staying overnight with Nana and Papa for a reason that includes us parents staying up really, really late, such as a 30th birthday party or our anniversary or something. So it doesn't really count.

What really counts, is sleeping well, at your own house, in your own house on an 'any-old-day' kind of night. Which is exactly what we had. And, as I mentioned in an earlier post, we had been planning on sleep-training Poppie to get her to sleep through the night as she was sooo close and we were sooo tired of waking up once or twice so she could drink 2 ounces of milk. And voila! She does it on her own so we don't have to be cruel parents. And as you know, Finn has been a problematic sleeper from day one, so his recent foray into sleeping through the night is most welcome.

I almost feel superhuman and I know that Nick does too (he woke up with the children, made them breakfast, changed them, picked up the house and folded three loads of laundry before I even had my first cup of coffee-- I could get really used to this)!

*There was a recent study of new moms and it found that they covet sleep more than food, water or any other bodily need. In other words, we would rather starve than be sleepless. Hence an entire post devoted to the celebration of the Hall family's recent sleep.