All About Sleeping With Pete

This is so not the post you THINK this is.

Peter and I used to have a nice constant sleeping pattern. I’d
crawl into bed and be sound asleep while he passed out on the couch
watching Scrubs/Stargate/ESPN. Then he’d quietly make his way to bed at
some point in the dark of night, being very careful to not wake me.
Thus the peaceful co-sleeping would commence.

It’s been hard adjusting to sleeping without Pete since he moved to
Alabama to work. At first it seems like the bed was gargantuan, too
much space and not enough blanket wrestling. Then it was getting used
to not sleeping 3-4 people in the bed, just me and the girls snuggled
up…that wasn’t SO hard to get used to….that’s sort of nice. But I’ve
gotten accustomed to the sleeping now, all that space to myself and I
very rarely wake myself up snoring.

The harder thing now is sleeping when Peter’s home.

Did he always flop around this much?

Has he always snored this loud?

When the heck did he start thinking it was ok to sleep vertically on the bed?

But it’s good to have him there. It’s good to reach over and touch
his arm in the night. It’s comforting to know that if we ever have an
intruder he’ll be there to make me get up and see what they’re stealing.

Yet, still….STILL with the freakishly loud snoring!

Tonight he was so gentle and loving when telling the kids, “Mommy snores like a pig.”

Hey, Pot, this is Kettle….you’re black! (ok, totally stole that line from “Friends”, but perfect for this situation)

Yeah, love you too, you cover-stealing, space-monopolizing bed hog!

But Peyton always has my back and let daddy know, “Mommy snores like a butterfly!”

I DO snore like a gentle, fragile butterfly and the
next time he whacks me on the head in the night, I’ll return the favor
with one my graceful butterfly punches to the gut.

---www.hope4peyton.org

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Kings and Queens

I enjoyed this post in a really timely, shared experience kind of way. My husband and I managed quite nicely in a king sized bed, but have fared much more poorly since a downgrade to a Queen. Apparently, I've always been the flopping, thrashing bed-hog in the relationship (who has also been falsely accused of snoring)--it's just that the ample size of the King bed made my disruptive habits less noticeable. What's really happening is that I now have nowhere to flee from my husband's jackhammer of a snore. And no room to lay vertically across the bed. Or bungle up the covers. Or perhaps snore, ever so lightly. Bottom line, we're going shopping this weekend to purchase a new mattress with some more night time real estate. Such is married life, I suppose. You don't mention here if you're sleeping in a king or queen, but it sounds like you're pure royalty to your kids, and that's enough to help any mom rest easy!

Cynthia Davis

http://runningwithletters.blogspot.com/

http://www.runningwithletters.com/

sharp, incisive, and more spirited than a preschooler with pinking shears.

Submitted by Running With Letters on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 08:30

the fight to sleep!

We share a king sized bed when he comes home, we share a queen size mattress when we go to visit him at his apartment in AL....we attempted, to a failure of epic proportions, to sleep in a regular bed.

Is there anything bigger than a king sized bed?

And what you said about my kids was SWEET! Thanks for that. You made my day.

Anissa Mayhew

www.hope4peyton.org

www.onevoiceproject.ning.com

Submitted by AnissaMayhew on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 09:31

Monster Bed

Aw, thanks...your relpy makes me feel welcome here in the BlogHer community...I am oh-so-new :)

And yes, I have heard there is a monstrosity of a bed called the California King...but they say it's really hard to find sheets to fit it, and REALLY expensive when you do. It probably hasn't come to that, yet.

Cynthia Davis

http://runningwithletters.blogspot.com/

http://www.runningwithletters.com/

sharp,incisive, and more spirited than a preschooler with pinking shears.

Submitted by Running With Letters on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 10:45

Bigger bed or smaller me?

I'm pretty new too, just started sometime in early June...it's nice and they have cookies! I'll make sure to stop by and check out your blog.

I don't want to deal with getting new sheets, maybe if we both just dropped 40 lbs we'd be better off. ;) Yes, I am just THAT lazy!

Anissa Mayhew

www.hope4peyton.org

www.onevoiceproject.ning.com

Submitted by AnissaMayhew on Fri, 08/01/2008 - 19:44

of course i don't snore...

thankfully, my husband stopped snoring around the time he started cycling to work. I like to think it's cos he's completely exhausted, but it's more likely because he lost all that weight.

so now I am the bad bedmate. when I get a cold my breathing is really, really laboured (the joys of asthma!), and according to my sweet, sweet husband, it's like being in bed with darth vader.

he's such a romantic : )

I think I have a recipe for that...

Submitted by kazari on Thu, 08/21/2008 - 21:05