I’ve heard stories about the lengths athletes go to in order to maintain a winning streak. It might be superstition, but if one believes wearing the same underwear day after day or avoiding cracks in the sidewalk improves performance, well, then maybe it does.
I’m building my own list of superstitions today.
Belly slept for 13 hours and 15 minutes in a row last night. No one rocked her back to sleep every three hours, she did not scream in her crib, Country-Fried Daddy and I did not have to play passive-aggressive games about who would go to her at three in the morning.
It was wonderful. And I have no idea how it happened.
We had ravioli for dinner. Perhaps we should have it again tonight. And tomorrow night.
I wore orange. Is orange soothing to Belly and her painful teeth-that-are-yet-to-be? Maybe I should buy more orange clothing.
My mom is in town. Is Bubbe part of the equation for sleep? Could I talk her into moving South?
Was it Belly’s feetie pajamas? The particular book she chose to read before bedtime? The phase of the moon?
I wish I knew, because it is not going to be easy for me to wear orange and cook ravioli and get my mom down here and read Goodnight Moon and keep that particular pair of jammies clean night after night.
But I’m going to try really hard, because the sleeping thing? It’s pretty great.
(In other news, Belly may have slept through the night, but I found Miss D. playing school in her bedroom at 2:45 a.m. There is a conspiracy against me. It is vast and sinister.)
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January 22, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I totally understand! Yay for over 13 hours, though!
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January 22, 2010 at 4:06 pm
I don’t even know what I would do with myself if I had 13 hours of sleep. Probably not much, because I’d still be up every hour wondering what the heck was wrong with my kids.
Doesn’t sleep change everything? For everyone? We have 3 sleepers and I’m not sure how to handle anything else. So, we might stop having kids.
That was a great post! And seriously, when you figure out what made her sleep, please pass it along. I have a five year old who could use some pointers.
It’s because your Mom was visiting. I swear, EVERY time my mom is here my kids sleep like a freaking dream. I don’t know what it is. She puts them to bed and I think she puts the juju on them. HA!!
I think you need to wear orange and have ravioli and whatever else was on your list and see. If it works again, I’d say it’s worth 13 hours of sleep, but I’m just selfish like that. And wow, the older one was playing school nicely by herself and didn’t get you up?! Moms intutition must have awakened you.
Been there; done that. But were you on edge wondering why Belly wasn’t up?
Oh, I seriously feel your pain! I have a little one that refuses to sleep-…or he likes to trick me and sleep 3 nights through and just when I believe in the tooth fairy again, he wakes up and stays that way for hours on end in the middle of the night… WHY!!?? yes, I like to blame teeth and yes, I like to administer tylenol.
I know! It’s like when they do something different than what they’ve done all along you just want to do…well, what was the difference this time?! And you sit there trying to figure it all out and then just give up because later it might all change again.
By the way, I used those pink bandaids and I feel better. No kidding…still a bit of a sore throat, but really…feeling better!