Ahhhh to forget....

The human mind has an amazing capability to forget. Don't misunderstand, we're also great at remembering. There are so many things that I have conveniently forgotten. Everyone knows that when you have a baby that sleep will be at a shortage, this is even more so with 2 babies. Eventually their sleeping time lengthens as does yours. If you're lucky some day they start sleeping through the night. I think when the sleeping through the night happens, it is also when the forgetting happens. Our bodies forget what it's like to be up every 2 hours and to survive on stolen moments of sleep. We get comfortable with the idea that we get a full nights sleep and we can't even remember what it was like to walk around like a zombie for months. Let's face it if we didn't forget that feeling nobody would have any more kids after that first one(s). So it's quite a shock to the system when 3 yrs later you have a rough night of little sleep. Such was the case last night. Derek got home late from a business trip and woke me up. I start to drift off to sleep and I hear crying, I drag myself out of bed and up the stairs...Ryan is thirsty. So I give him water and go back to bed. A couple hours later I hear Sofia screaming for her frog. Now someone will have to explain to me how in the middle of the night while she is sleeping she can tell that her frog fell off the bed. So I drag myself up the stairs..AGAIN...and get the frog. Back to bed for me. A couple hours later I hear a horrible screeching whining about needing to go to the bathroom. So I drag myself up the stairs AGAIN! I take Sofia to the bathroom (ah the joys of potty training). I convince her to go back to bed even though it's starting to get light out and I go back to bed. So this morning I'm feeling a little like a zombie and I am having a glimmer of remembrance of those early days. At this particular moment I'm feeling really happy that I won't have to go through that sleeplessness again. Of course if you ask me on a day of particular mischievousness by the twins, I will gladly tell you that I would take those early days over the toddler days anytime. Ahhhh to forget.....