Husb and I have been having some serious problems with our mattress lately.  We have both been waking up with a sore neck, back, and shoulders for the past couple of months.  This problem is consistent and is an every night battle.  We believe that we need a new mattress.  I have been hearing great things about the sleep number bed. I know that a mattress is an expensive investment but to me it is just that… an investment. Getting good sleep is worth it to me.

Has anyone tried the Sleep number bed? Do you like it?

Ahhh sleep… where did you go?  It seems like only two months ago now that you were coming in 8 hour shifts like clockwork every night.  Now however… you seemed to have floated off on a cloud.  Maybe you left with the sandman.  Whatever.  The point is… you are not here and I am not as functional as I used to be.

It was about a month ago that husb and I decided it was time to put mr. brodykins into his own crib.  Right now, all three kids share a large room.  The oldest two sleep in bunkbeds and mr. baby is in his crib.  This arrangement worked out well for about a week.

Now however, Brodykins wakes up in the middle of the night. This, usually because he has lost his pacifier.  His crying in turn wakes up the other kids and so we get many visits to our bed during the wee hours of the night. The kids and Elmo.

But I tell y’all now…. I am absolutely over it.  It is hard to maintain a cheery disposition and a feeling of being on top of things when you get 2 hours of sleep per night.  I never realized how much sleep meant until I was no longer getting it. (I think we parents block out the “We have a newborn and are not getting enough sleep” phase… so obviously this whole sleep deprivation thing is not *new* to me. BUT STILL.

Somewhere in the back of my mind is the knowledge that this is a phase and it shall pass.  Still… tell it to my eyes that need to be pried open or my mind that seems to have developed selective amnesia.  You know… the kind where you forget simple things like … the keys to the car… the purse…. diapers… tampons… etc.

I am certainly ready to have an 8 hour siesta and i’m sure that by posting this I have jinxed my chances for tonight.  Ah well….perhaps when we get a sleep number bed better rest and a full night will come with it?

Who knows… but for now… i’m going to pry my eyelids open with a toothpick. I totally say this tongue-in-cheek.