What do you get when. . .

[velvetpage]

Your husband can't sleep, and instead flops around like a beached whale, snores like a foghorn, and wakes the baby up at six o'clock on a holiday?

Answer: shafted.

I figured I was awake anyway, due to sleeping next to the beached foghorn, so I might as well get up with her. Besides, I'll need the sleep-in time much more tomorrow, after the Friday-night game, and letting Piet sleep in today means I should be able to bargain for right of first sleep-in tomorrow.

She's quietly dozing on my lap. Why couldn't she have quietly dozed in her crib?

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[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Hey. Why d'ye think cats prefer being draped over a human?
They can sense the warmth and gurgling, rhythmic sounds of a fellow living creature.

And you're her mama. That's what mamas are for!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I know. It just makes my shoulders hurt. She's no featherweight anymore - she's at 28 pounds, and she's thirty-four inches long. That's a lot of toddler to be draped over one, 5'2" woman.

[stripedsocks.livejournal.com]

You poor thing. D couldn't sleep last night for snoring so he ended up on the couch. Of course, that meant that every time I rolled over to where he should have been I woke up 'cause he wasn't. Can't win for losing, I suppose.

Hope your day gets better!

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

It just did, through the medium of a twenty-five minute shower. It felt soooo good. And I got a good bit done on my plot outline for the dolphin book while she was using me as a pillow. :)

You know, Piet can leave for the couch in the middle of the night and I won't wake up until the alarm goes off? But then, I'm a very solitary sleeper - I don't cuddle in the middle of the night.

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

What a way to start the day. I don't suppose Elizabeth stayed asleep for you?

I'm a cuddly sleeper when I'm going to sleep, but once I'm out, I don't need anybody near me, and seem to want my own space. If Ian gets up while I'm still sleeping, I won't notice at all, as I never go onto his side. In fact, he usually wakes up with the discarded blankets wedged between him and me :D

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

She slept on me for most of an hour, then I put her down in her crib. She slept fifteen minutes after that, at which point we woke up Daddy so I could actually type. :)

[georgiaskydiver.livejournal.com]

"What do you do when . . ."


I'm thinking baseball bat? Granted, if you knock him out he'll quit flopping around but it might not do anything to help the snoring.

We were kept awake all night by a SCREAMING incolsolable toddler. Wanna trade?

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

No, thanks. My sympathies, and I hope your day gets better from here.