The Yo-Yo of Sleep

Sascha is a loud sleeper. There are some nights where she actually cries in the middle of the night (sometimes it's 3-4 times, like a newborn) but usually she just does these loud whines. Like the threat of a cry. The first one will be loudest. I'm inclined to stay in bed and see if it passes, but Nick always gets up. That wakes me up more than the cry would. 15 minutes later, just as I'm sinking back to sleep...

"EHHHHHH!!!"

And I'm pulled out of it again.

I lie there a while, afraid to go back to sleep, but eventually it gets the best of me. So I start to sink again.

"EHHHHHHH!!!!"

And I'm pulled out of it again. Two or three cycles of this, and I look at my alarm clock, which looks back at me like "I was going to go off in 45 minutes anyway. Sorry."

It's torture.

This isn't the best start for a day when we're supposed to get a foot of snow, and school was NOT called off. Last time this happened, it took us six hours to get home, we didn't even make it to our own house (we went to my parents'), and Sascha had to stay at my sister's. I'm so glad that a few hours of school is so important to our superintendent. The teachers were planning a sick-out but Nick and I don't have the heart (or balls) to participate. Ugh.