Sleepless in Portland

While I love the holidays and spending time with friends and family, I find my total hours of sleep definitely takes a hit. When I was single and child-free, not a problem! Just sleep in the next day or on the weekend. Now? Ha! Sleeping in? What a joke.

While we had SK's parents and grandma visiting, little AMK was in our room with us again. Since her sleep schedule is not quite settled yet, she is still waking up at least twice a night. Once at 1 a.m., and again at 5 or 6 a.m. Normally, I would have her cry it out, but since she's in our room and the dear hubs needs his sleep to do surgery on patients' eyeballs, I was getting up to rock or feed her to sleep. Painful!

Unfortunately, even though AMK has been back in her own room for 4 days now, she is still adhering to this schedule. I'm finding it's really hard to let her just cry it out. Even SK urges me to go to her and comfort her. I'll try to stay strong tonight. Gulp.

And now I hear AMK waking up from a too-short afternoon nap. So much for a catnap of my own!