sleep is overrated

Wishful thinking 

The great, late Warren Zevon sang, “I'll sleep when I'm dead,” a line I'm assuming was inspired by being a first time parent.

It's estimated parents lose roughly 350 hours of sleep within the first 24 months of a newborn's life, which literally makes me sleepy. The one thing people kept telling me when they found out we were expecting was, “Enjoy your sleep now.” I hated hearing it, despite discovering later they were right.

But some nights are better than others. And I look at it as bonding time. I’m away from the house most of the day, and so that moment around four o’clock in the morning when I’m rocking him to sleep is one of the few one-on-one times we have. “It don’t matter if I get a little tired, I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”  

Note From Eleanor: I have no idea where this is coming from. I’m the one that gets up with the baby.

*Picture of Clay taken by Kandee Lancaster Photography in Omaha, Nebraska.