Last night my sweet Jenna just couldn’t sleep for some reason. She was up at 10:45 (right after I had gone to sleep, so when I woke up I was really out of it) and wanted a tape to help her fall asleep. I started a tape really quietly, so as not to wake her sister who she shares a room with.

At sometime around 1:00 she was back in my room asking about something or other. I don’t know if it’s the same with everyone, but I sleep REALLY soundly for the first couple of hours, and hav a hard time waking up. So, I really wasn’t sure what time it was, what she needed and all that. I told her to go use the bathroom, and I heard her softly crying as she did so. She wanted another tape. No, I said, you should have been asleep long ago, and you don’t get a tape. She cried all the way back to bed, so I went and sat by her on her bed. It only took about 5 minutes for her to fall asleep. But how long did it take me to fall asleep? Probably about an hour. Ugh.

My point about the other parent is–if Ryan had been here, he would have still been up, so hopefully he would have been the one dealing with the sleepwalking (or just not asleep) child. But alas, Ryan is not here, he’s in Las Vegas for the week for a big Consumer Electronics Show. And I miss him.