Day Twelve: A small miracle
Last night I slept through the night for the first time in almost two years. I feel amazing. I feel surges of patience and fuzzy goodwill and cheer that weren’t there before. Solo slept through the night also, and he also claims to feel amazing. More kissing power.
When I say his full name, he imitates me by saying, “Nomen nomen nomen.” And then my heart stops because he’s adorable.
Tomorrow I will take a writing day. And all I can say is that it’s ABOUT TIME. The people in my novel are laying on their backs, holding their hands out to me limply, calling in their frail voices, “We’ll dieeee if you don’t brinnnng us to liiiifffee.”
The rain stopped today and I got the rest of the plants in the ground. I bashed my shin on a stool when the power went out and I was trying to get a candle, and then I yelled at the kids for leaving the stool there, which is really not fair, since I wouldn’t have said anything about it if I hadn’t bashed my leg so hard that there was an instant lump. Then I hugged them and kissed them. And held my leg and moaned a bit.
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Hooray for sleep! Hopefully this is the dawn of a new trend.
I can feel the difference in your words today.
Sleep…..the gift that keeps giving!
I would have yelled too AND I would have felt badly afterwards. Thank goodness for make up hugs and kisses.
have a wonderful writing day…ahh creative space on a full tank of juice (sleep) sounds like quite a combination…love ya
Your posts like this one always make me smile and feel happier
I had forgotten that you probably haven’t been getting sleep. Congratulations. And here is to many more blessed sleep nights.
Congratulations to the both of you for sleeping through the night. May it be the first of many to come.
go girl, bring those people to life
More kissing power!!!
All that sleep…such a powerful elixir.
It encouraged me to hear of a full night of sleep. My little guy who was going from 7 to 7 now wakes up every few hours. Who knows why? Not me. And he certainly isn’t giving many obvious clues. Hungry? maybe. Needs new diaper in middle of night? Maybe. Gassy from solids? Maybe. Cold? Probably not, but maybe. Too warm? Probably not, but maybe. Soother crisis? Sometimes. ANYway. It enouraged me, the idea that at some point, there may yet again be a full night of sleep … sometime.
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