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The one thing that I miss the most since becoming a mommy is sleep.  I don’t particularly miss my sanity because I don’t think I had a ton of it to begin with.  Going out with my husband just the two of us?  Surfing?  Sure.  My old body?  Yeah, maybe.  With SLEEP I’d have enough energy to get that back.  But sleep…oh, wonderful, beautiful sleep!  The feeling of snuggling into the warm comforter, your head melting into the pillow.  Waking up refreshed without an alarm.  Not waking up 2 or 3 times a night. 

 It is amazing to me that I am still functioning after 7 1/2 months of sleep deprivation.  (Functioning.  Not to be confused with functioning well).  BTT (Before Tater Tot), I was an absolute wreck on 6 hours of sleep.  Now that’s the norm.  I feel lucky if I get 7!

You might ask “doesn’t your child sleep through the night yet?”  Well, yes, she does.  About half of the time.  But, you see, I have now been trained to wake up in the middle of the night.  So, even when she does sleep through the night, guess who wakes up?  Yep, that would be me.  Which would be okay if I could go right back to sleep.  But, no, that would be too easy. 

What about “nap when your child naps?”  Yeah, that sounds good but then nothing gets done and Mommy doesn’t have any clean underwear.  Not okay.  Not that I’m morally opposed to turning the previous days’ underwear inside out…  Okay, yes, I am morally opposed to that.  It’s just not right.  So most days I don’t nap and sometimes stuff still doesn’t get done.  But today my beautiful child graced me with a 2 hour nap and, contrary to my usual behavior, I napped too.  Two glorious hours of blissful sleep!  Life cannot get any better.