Ok mommy’s out there, tell me this, is there a light at the end of the tunnel? Ooh wait, that’s me dizzy from lack of sleep.  Last night I was up and down my oldest daughter (3 years) has a cold and woke up crying.  She has yet another cold, in fact we all do.  I get her some benadryl hoping she will be able to get back to sleep.  Just as we both doze off, I hear my youngest (19 months) start in with mommy mommy.

So I leave one bed to go to her and find her in the same state.  Try to bring her to my bed, but my husband who was just struck with same cold is snoring so loud that neither of us would ever get back to sleep.  So we both now go to lay down with my oldest daughter.  This creates the perpetual crying fits randomly from both girls – who don’t even seem to wake up to do it!  So now from the first wake up at 12:30 am it is now 5:30 am – I return to my bed hoping to get an hour in before the alarm goes off!

I am sure this sounds familiar to most of you.  Can we do without sleep?  Not really, especially if we want to function in the happy go lucky mommy like way, ignore the fact that we are tired and sick too.  Go to work continue on with service excellence and baby the entire family.  Sometimes I want to play hookie and come home and sleep after everyone goes on about their day.   Oh wait I can’t do that either the girls are at home with the mother in law, who has been visiting for going on 5 months.  I thought once my girls began to sleep through the night as babies I would at least get 8 hours again.  NOT! » Read more: S-L-E-E-P will I ever get some??