Now that I’m over waking up to nurse a hungry baby in the night, my sleeping habits have become much more routine and I am no longer trying to function on seventy-five, interrupted minutes of one-eye-open sleep while a little person in the house screams at me as though with a megaphone inserted directly into my ear drum.

It’s only now that I’ve had a couple of years of regular sleep I really start to notice when someone wakes up and how awful it is to try to function the next day if you’ve had a rude awakening.

Last night at 4am, Chloe (our 3 year old) walked into our room to ask me, “Mommy, do spiders make you shiver?”

Yes, they do Chloe…now and for the rest of the night I will be very aware that there might be a spider somewhere on my body and I will shiver uncontrollably. Thanks.

She went back to her bed willingly but I could hear her giggling the entire way. I think she may have even stood in the hall making spider shadow puppets on the wall just to mess with me.

I can’t wait for tonight. I’m going to sneak into her room and ask her if she heard the bat flying around and then make fire breathing dragon sounds from her closet.

Mwha ha ha.