by Leah
The other day at work my boss opened our staff meeting with a devotional about sleep: how we often prize being attentive, awakened, present--but that God gifts us with sleep as well as wakefulness:
"It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for God gives sleep to his beloved."
(Psalm 127:2, NRSV)
The word "Amen" was out of my mouth before she could even finish her first sentence.
See, after our great sleep experiment leading up to daycare, we hit a rash of routine-busting events: godmother came for a sleepover, play auntie* came for dinner, grandparents came for a baptism, dad went home for a funeral and everybody wanted to Facetime at bedtime...etc. etc. So Little Bit, rather understandably, missed the memo on sleeping consistently through the night. She'd only done it twice in the couple of weeks since we'd started her new routine. And Mama, who LOVES her sleep, was just about fed up with that. Two days before I had been so sleep deprived I had flashbacks to my nights as an on-call chaplain. I tried to nap while pumping at work, which only made me more disoriented (something not so lulling about the "whack-O, whack-O" call of the pump?). I told my boss not to give me any important decisions to make, lest my judgment, deprived from exhaustion, fail me. I even thought about napping before driving home because I was not sure I was safe to drive.
How do you moms out there DO this??
The other day at work my boss opened our staff meeting with a devotional about sleep: how we often prize being attentive, awakened, present--but that God gifts us with sleep as well as wakefulness:
"It is in vain that you rise up early
and go late to rest,
eating the bread of anxious toil;
for God gives sleep to his beloved."
(Psalm 127:2, NRSV)
The word "Amen" was out of my mouth before she could even finish her first sentence.
See, after our great sleep experiment leading up to daycare, we hit a rash of routine-busting events: godmother came for a sleepover, play auntie* came for dinner, grandparents came for a baptism, dad went home for a funeral and everybody wanted to Facetime at bedtime...etc. etc. So Little Bit, rather understandably, missed the memo on sleeping consistently through the night. She'd only done it twice in the couple of weeks since we'd started her new routine. And Mama, who LOVES her sleep, was just about fed up with that. Two days before I had been so sleep deprived I had flashbacks to my nights as an on-call chaplain. I tried to nap while pumping at work, which only made me more disoriented (something not so lulling about the "whack-O, whack-O" call of the pump?). I told my boss not to give me any important decisions to make, lest my judgment, deprived from exhaustion, fail me. I even thought about napping before driving home because I was not sure I was safe to drive.
How do you moms out there DO this??