334: some semblance of sleep again

This summer was a lot of fun but it was also just a lot. Especially towards the end we were all so busy and overstimulated at times and our sleep routines took a large brunt of the effects. The girls didn't have a consistent bed time, they would be up multiple times a night, and then they were exhausted the next day and it all just repeated itself. No good. Three or four weeks of that and we had some whiney, cranky, emotional, excitable little gals on our hands.

Now that we have been back (more or less) for a couple of weeks, we have finally gotten settled enough to get sleep again. The girls still suck at the actually-going-to-sleep part of it - it's border-line ridiculous - but once they're asleep they're asleep for the night. They have been sleeping 10-11 hours at night and it is heaven. They still come into our bed now and then in the middle of the night (3 or 4 in the morning, sometimes later) but that has never bothered me. I get a lot more sleep when they come in with us and fall right back to sleep than I do if I have to get u, walk to their room, get the resettled, and then get myself back to sleep - it always takes me forever. I would much prefer for them to come in. I fall right back to sleep and often don't even remember them coming in! And it's not every night. They have been sleeping all the way through more often than they ever have before ... It only took 4 years.

I'm thankful that we may be on our way to more consistent sleep for all of us.