Sleepless Nights

The past few days had been rough.  My children decided that the only way to fall asleep is to have Mommy around!  One of them actually woke up a few hours before dusk one day and STAYED AWAKE for the rest of the day.  I was behind exhaustion and told them that if they keep this up, they'll have to go to the hospital for a sleep study.  (I ended up spending 10 minutes explaining what sleep study is...sigh.)  Well, they didn't know that I was bluffing and at least one of them made an effort to sleep without Mommy around...thank goodness!  Hopefully everyone will sleep like "normal people" tonight.