Its 6 a.m. on a Sunday morning and I’m up blogging about
sleep. In my past life this would never be. Sleep in all honestly used to my
most favorite part of the day. I remember the moments of counting down until it
was time to put the kids to bed so that I could tuck my ownself in and fall off
to sleep. I’ve come to the conclusion that I was just an exhausted woman back
then.
What a gift it is now to nap and sleep when I need to and I’ve
seen the blessing this gift has been in my kid’s life as well. It still seems weird
to be at the park past sunset and not feel the pressure of having to rush home
for baths, doing hair, and story time so that they could be somewhat rested for
a 6 a.m. dash out of bed to get ready for school. Nowadays I don’t even need to
stir them in the mornings before school, they actually wake up on their own. I
know this may seem awfully weird to some, an appreciation of what the gift of
sleep can do, but it still boggles me.
As my pregnancy draws to its end in the 3rd trimester,
I have to get up multiple times in the night to relief myself as the baby
dances on my bladder. This break in my sleep through the night sometimes causes
me to be a bit groggy in the mornings for school and there are days that my
body yearns for more sleep as we do school in the day. What a sweet, lovely,
gift it is to be able to finish school up by 1 or so and then crawl into bed
for a nap. A nap in the middle of the day. How divine!
I retreated from our homeschool room on Friday last week to
crawl into bed while the kids cranked up their tunes from VBS (vacation bible
school) to have a dance party (this is their daily end of the school day ritual).
They invited me to join them, but as the baby proceeded to have a dance party
in my belly as I’m standing (I really don’t the recall my girls moving so much
even when standing…..geesh), I asked for a rain check and headed for an hour or
so of sweet slumber. I woke up to find them nestled up around me when I woke up
as they watched cartoons.
I shared all that to say, now that sleep is no longer one of
the biggest highlights of my day I’ll have to find another.
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