When baby-bugs sleep
How random... I sit down to write a post for the first time in a week, and suddenly my LJ header is yellow-green and spring-like. It's a lovely change from the standard blue.
In the distance, through the hammering rain, the sound of a siren approaches then grows distant.
In a dark room with a desk, a crib and over-stuffed closet, a mother drifts lightly in meditation while her son nurses into an exhausted sleep.
Today I shoveled 5 inches of snow off my car so I could get to the office. Yes. I said I shoveled my car. The brush would have taken 3 times as long. I then headed to the office for a few hours, while R
dropped off DS at jellyjenn 's place before heading off to 12 hours of appointments and processing. During his visit, DS didn't nap at all, despite our best efforts to get him to crash in her bed.
My little energizer bunny who won't stop for anything unless he is in the car seat for longer than 20 minutes, or his bed.
Tonight, after eating a bowl of soup (which he took out of the cabinet and requested for dinner), I managed to get him to bed with the least amount of fuss I've ever seen out of this kid.
Tooth brushing tonight was fun. I swear my teeth haven't been cleaner or whiter since I started helping with the tooth brushing routine. And DS is getting good at doing his teeth too.
To the sound of heavy rain hitting the window, in the darkened room with the blue night light, my mind turned to work stuff, and DS pulled the blanket over his head, and within minutes was asleep.
I think I must have sat that way for 20 minutes before deciding to move him to his bed. He sleep nurses, and normally I choose *just* the right moment to switcheroo to a pacifier. Tonight the switch went off without a hitch. Then the shift so I can stand up. Didn't happen. I got as far as getting his head to my shoulder... then I sat. It felt so awesome to have him sleep on me. In the almost-three years, he only ever sleeps on me while nursing. He'll fall asleep on the shoulders of others, but never on me.
Tonight, I enjoyed the warmth of his head on my shoulder, light snoring in my ear, his blanket wrapped around him. I basked.
It was a perfect moment of mommy-hood.
Moment? What am I saying?? Totally FIVE MINUTES of comfortable happiness!
I put him down in bed when HE moved to shift position.
No issue, no complaint, no fuss. *sigh*
... and I get to write to the sound of the dripping pouring rain, and a silent house.