The Bug In My Bed

Last night just as I was about to go to bed Amanda was waking up in a fit of discomfort. Her allergies have been acting up, I don't really follow the allergen reports so I have no idea what's in the air right now, which makes it very difficult for her to sleep. I gave her some Benedryl equivalent before she went to sleep but it obviously wasn't working too well because she was all stuffy and her nose was running like crazy.

I had two options. Get up with her multiple times throughout the evening to console her back to sleep or just let her sleep with me. Since Charlie was in New York on business last night I decided I would much rather have her sleep with me so that I wasn't cranky in the morning from the interrupted sleep and because there would be plenty of room on the bed.

We have a king sized bed, so how could there not be enough room? Charlie and I used to have a queen, but when the mattress started hurting out backs we decided to buy a new one and Charlie wanted to upgrade to a king. It's nice, but I barely see him anymore. Hello, anybody over there? Basically, the bed is huge. Therefore, I did not think it would be a big deal to let a little baby girl sleep with me.

Of course, I was wrong. When Amanda sleeps with us, she likes to be cuddled up to one of us. Since I was the only other person in the bed, it was me. I like to sleep on or near the edge of the bed anyway, so now I was on the far side of the bed with a little 30 some inch hot box snuggled up next to me. She kept rolling all over me trying to get comfortable, kicking off the blankets that she didn't want but I did. I should have taken her pajamas off and then maybe she would have let me keep the covers on. At one point I looked next to her and there was about four feet of empty space left on Charlie's side and we were crammed into a one foot space on my side of the bed.

It still was better that getting up numerous times and walking across the house to her bedroom, but it would have been a little nicer if she could have spread out a little bit. Oh, and refrained from breathing sweet nothings in my ear. That I could have done without. Yep, some day I'm going to miss all this.