Dear 4am...

As a mother of young children there are certain events that take place very seldom but are never taken for granted:

- Using the restroom [[and/or taking a shower/bath]] in silence...and if you're a magician and were able to get the door closed as well you'd better mark it on the calender so you can remember it for all of time!

- More than 2hrs of uninterrupted sleep.

Regardless of how hard I try, I cannot fall asleep on command. So that old saying "Sleep when baby sleeps." is pointless in my house, because by the time I do fall asleep, Chunk is waking up to eat! The only difference between our nights and days around here, is that I tend to fall asleep sitting up during those 4am feedings and wake up 20 minutes later with a horrible kink in my neck and worried that the baby has suffocated on my boob.

I'm definitely not super mom, but I can last 24-72hrs without sleep, before turning into a raging psycho momma...if given enough coffee and sweets during those hrs! I tend to get a second, third, forth, even fifth burst of energy throughout these days and although they may not last long, sometimes even washing my hair seems to a big accomplishment.

Last night after having obtained 4hrs of uninterrupted sleep due to having passed out from exhaustion, I did something very uncharacteristic, I passed a very wide-eyed Chunk off to his dad! After an hr of feeding Chunk at 1am, he wasn't showing any signs of falling into a milky coma, so I got out of bed, gave him to RL and went straight back to sleep! I ended up getting a total of 8 1/2 hrs of sleep total last night, in 2 large increments! I have a slight kink in my neck from falling asleep a few times while feeding Chunk, but nothing a hot shower won't fix.

Now, if only I could get that shower without Minion coming into the restroom to pee or asking for a snack.