sleep, sleep, sleep

Sleep? What is that? I am surrendered to the fact that I will never sleep again the way I once did, but every once in a while Madi surprises me and we both get amazing naps. I am working really hard to get her on a specific nap schedule. It has been incredibly difficult and it seems there is always something that threatens my efforts. But today, she actually napped on the schedule I wanted... and it really is just as amazing as I thought it would be. It was probably a fluke, but I won't give up.

She napped from 9 - 11 (so did I) and 2 to well it's 3:40 now and she is still asleep. I have been getting some great afternoon naps lately. This left us 3 hours to play with in the middle of our day and she was so pleasant. I was able to feed her at 11 and we headed right out on this beautiful day. We went to the chiropractor, ran a few errands, and then visited some of my favorite high school teachers and the preschool that I worked at in high school. We could do so much. We then got home at 1:45, she ate and went right to sleep. I never thought I would see the day when I could be out with a happy awake baby for 2 1/2 hours before she would need to be fed and sleep again. It's funny what makes a mom happy ;)

Now I find myself missing her and wishing she would wake up, but at night when she still gets up twice I am wishing for sleep. And even when she never slept (or so it seemed, I still loved her with every ounce of my being, as I am sure I still will when she regresses and we fight for sleep again. I hear it's a never ending battle ;) I can't have it all can I? But then again, I kind of do!