Sleeping Arrangements

As of tomorrow it will be two weeks since Charlie and I have slept in the same bed.  In fact, except for one night, it will be two weeks that we haven't even slept in the same room.  Don't worry, this wasn't by design, there's nothing wrong with our marriage.  There's just something wrong with our children.  Or the power we give our children.

Sarah's surgery was two weeks ago on Tuesday.  Man how time flies.  While she was in the hospital I was there with her.  I never left.  When she got back, we were a little worried about having her sleep in her own bed in case something went wrong in the middle of the night.  We were going to let her sleep on the futon in our room (I think I've mentioned before that our room is enormous, so it's no big deal to fit a futon in there.  The room takes up all the space over the garage, so basically our master bedroom is the size of a two-car garage.  It's cool and ridiculous all at the same time.), but the futon is hard and we were worried about her back.  So we decided for a couple of days she should sleep in our bed.  She's still there.

Even better, when Amanda found out Sarah was sleeping in our room, which is hard to cover up when all the kids go to bed at the same time and Sarah almost always gets into bed before Amanda, she decided she didn't want to sleep in her bed either.  So guess who is sleeping on the futon (or buuutaaan as she calls it)?  You guessed it, Amanda.

There was one night where both my mom and Charlie's mom were here, so we let Charlie's mom have the big kids' room and I slept on the futon with Amanda and Andy slept on our floor.  Ugh.  That thing is not comfortable.  Other than that for the first couple of days Charlie slept in the bed with Sarah, but he got sick and didn't want to give it to her so now he's been sleeping in her bed and I've been sleeping with her in our bed.

We informed the kids today that tonight would be the last night they get to sleep in our room.  Sarah was cool with it but Amanda was not excited.  We are planning on moving Andy into Amanda's room and Amanda in with Sarah in the summer and thought about moving it up, but the logistics are a nightmare.  So instead the next few days are going to be a beating.  All that extra sleep I got sleeping in because we didn't have to be anywhere will be wiped out with crying and trips in the middle of the night to calm the girls.

On the bright side, I get to cuddle once again with my hubby.  That's definitely worth it.