March 17, 2016, 3:41 a.m.
A reasonably common occurence in our home... Right now, it's 3:41am, and my sweet 3-year old baby girl, whose body is awash with toxins, lay wide, wide awake next to me. Staring up at me, with confused and curious blue eyes. "I want you seep with me, Mama," she keeps on saying again and again. She's tired, I can tell, but her little body has things that currently trump sleep on it's to-do list. And I'll be able to finally sleep, I know, when I see her tiny eyes finally at rest. Hard though, not to see a bit of humor in this, of course. Often there seems to be an odd competition among working parents in 2016 with regard to the hour that their small children are in bed--8pm is not great but okay to say out loud in mixed company, 7pm is exemplary, and if you're a family boasting 6:30pm.... And I'll confess that even running around like housework dogs after our day jobs, our three pre-diagnosis were not one night in bed before 9pm on a good night (shh, don't tell anyone). Maybe 3:41am is the leukemia version of 9pm?
You know what, Ais, who cares?! Sleep when you can, and I will too.
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Chris Cosgrove 8 years, 8 months ago
Right, 3:41AM must be it... Her poor little body is probably upside down on just about everything! It WILL return to that wonderful 9:00PM bedtime. All I know is your kids are happy, vibrant, warm delightful kids.....and this in the face of a rotten miserable disease.
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Chris
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