Dream Dream Dream

Sleep is a highly desired commodity at our house. Still. My youngest is 29 months old, takes wonderful naps and goes down for bedtime with relative ease. However, sometime in the wee hours of the night she pitter patters into our room and demands to come to sleep with us. My oldest is almost 5 and has grown out of naps (ugh) and eagerly goes down for bedtime, yet she also sneaks into our bed around the same time as her sister. So, daybreak finds our family of four crowded into a queen size bed. Sometimes even the cat is curled up near my feet so I can't even move, wedged between everyone. I dream of a king size bed, or better yet, that everyone can sleep the entire night peacefully tucked into their own beds. Last week I had the idea that I would make dream pillows for the girls to chase away bad dreams and keep them in their beds. They loved the idea. Even helped with designing the facial features and picking colors. I stuffed them with sleepy time herbs such as hops and chamomile and shaped them into full moons. They named them and eagerly go to sleep with them each night. Yet, they do not work as intended and this morning all four of us awoke on our ever shrinking queen size bed. Yawn.....