While we were in Sanibel, I had a moment of realization. The kitchen has mugs that show maritime signal flags. Bridges asked me if I wanted "my mug" in the morning (I tend to become attached to particular mugs). I looked up at "Yankee- Dragging Anchor." All of a sudden I remembered just how tired I was at our last visit in February (in the midst of Clara's seven months of ear infections), and really how tired I've been during previous visits to Sanibel.
We were married in Sanibel six years ago on November 30th. The following year I was pregnant, and every visit afterward we've been in the midst of raising small kid(s). We've had some pretty rough spells of sleeping, particulary last winter and spring with Clara's ear infections, followed directly by Lee's months of night terrors. It's really only been the last four months or so that I've really started catching up on sleep from the past several years.
Not only that, I have started sleeping the sleep of the dead the last six months or so. There are many nights that I don't even wake up if one of the girls wakes up. I sleep so deeply that when I wake up in the night I often don't know where I am or what day it is. I honestly don't remember sleeping like this during my adult life. It's absolutely wonderful.
So I looked at the available mugs, and picked "Bravo - Dangerous Cargo" since the little ones are still quite a bit of work. I think next year I might move to "Juliet - On Fire."
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