Sweet oblivion

I got a full seven hours of sleep last night, the first bout of uninterrupted slumber in recent memory.  I'm always woken up (sometimes three or four times) by the wee two year-old crawling out of his bed and trying to climb into ours beside me.  I don't want him to get comfortable doing this, so I always carry him back to his own bed.  He doesn't resist, sleepy as he is, but he often ends up doing it multiple times and it isn't until nights like last night that I realise how much better rested I am when allowed to sleep through the night.

In honour of that, a free verse poem.  Originally left on a friend's site as a comment, but equally relevant here, for me.

Ah, sweet oblivion!
There was a time
I could find you
In the night.
I go there now, faithfully,
Every ending of the day,
And seek for you
With my eyes wide shut
And my senses adrift
And my consciousness slipping
Into the abyss
Where I know you reside

Only

To be pulled back from
The precipice
By the somnambulant slap
Of tiny feet whose
Body and soul
Want to snuggle at
Two in the goddamn morning.

Comments

[Émilie B]

Hear, hear.

[Tasha Vincent]

Hear, hear, hear!

[fv]

Keep it down! I'm trying to sleep!

[Mark]

And how.

[Mark]

I guess we were fortunate that we never brought our child into the bed to sleep with us at night. He might be mentally scarred from all the screaming, but oh well.

Last night, however, staying with family, he awoke from deep slumber on a roll-up pad on the floor and cried that seeing under the bed scared him, so he slept the remaining few hours with us in the king-sized bed.

Your post makes me feel better because I can enjoy exceptions to the norm instead of dreading a behavior pattern.

Thanks, Simon.

[Moksha Gren]

Little Lutine has opted to forgo her normal sleep pattern the last few nights. Much more screaming, much less slumber. I'm eagerly awaiting the return of my good nigth sleep.

Maybe in Tucson, eh?

[Dave]

Good luck breaking the little one's habit of climbing into bed with you.. we did it but it was tough (that was a LONG time ago!) *LOL*