The Permanent Pallet

 in our house the master bed is quite sacred. quite off limits to small people.  we have never allowed our kids to sleep with us. our reasoning is super deep and super spiritual so get ready for it.... WE ARE SELFISH! WE LIKE OUR SLEEP! ;) it took me a dag-gum year to learn how to sleep with mark in the bed.. i was not even going to consider letting the children sleep in the bed with us. i like my children...but not that much.

some of my la-leche friends are reaching for the phone and calling DHS on us, so let me redeem myself by telling you about our permanent pallet.  as a kid i had terrible, terrible, night meres. and believe you me i was not watching anything but the cosby show, 3-2-1 contact, and sesame street.. oh and the 3 stooges. nothing really night mere worthy, but i just struggled with fear, lots of fear. and up until about 18 months ago that fear held me in bondage. so i am very sympathetic to my kids when they are awakened in the middle of the night by bad dreams, thunder, or just the natural sleep cycle. not so sympathetic to let them into the throne room of the master bed.. but almost as plush.... there is a pallet ALWAYS made up by the side of the bed. it does not take much brain power to guess whose side it's by... (mine, of course). if someone needs some extra closeness, or extra comfort, they know without a question they are welcome to sleep here...

 some nights we have multiple pallet partners. but mainly it just bounces back between anderson and lucy. once upon a time they would wake me up to let me know they were joining me... recently, i just wake up in the morning and find them cuddled up in the plush pallet. for us, this is the perfect answer for those middle of the night moments.

just a little food for thought on this holiday hang over day!
~s