monks and earthly temperatures

yesterday, one of our generous neighbors (they are all generous, so describing her this way... i suppose protects her identity) offered to watch william tonight so we could go out. we have gone out, without william, approximately twice, other than a few lunches in between work. we took her up on the offer and ate cheap italian food, and i had exactly one-half of a glass of cheap wine and realized that my tolerance for alcohol is probably on par with that of a buddhist monk (and maybe they drink, i guess i don't know). this wouldn't worry me, except that i am throwing my sister a bachelorette party in a few short days, and i don't think there's anyway to get my tolerance up to speed with a bunch of 20-something non-parents who did not get on a plane in central time, only to land in a mountain time zone that refuses to recognize daylight savings-- the result, of course, being that, at 9 o'clock, while we are just heading toward the bars, i will be having drowsy and potentially tipsy thoughts of my empty 11 o'clock bed. but, i am young enough, and just because i have had only one night of uninterrupted sleep in nearly a year, such that i am in a permanent (?) sleep-deprived state of constantly thinking of sleep, i can make it, i know that this is possible, and i will enjoy it, on top of surviving it.

perhaps you are wondering where the one night of uninterrupted sleep came from... well... the other night we put william in his crib and at 3:25 a.m. i woke up... and momentarily panicked... we must check on him! why has he not gotten us up yet, given that he always wakes up no later than 12 or 1, and many times, earlier... so we checked. relieved that he was still breathing, we went back to sleep and he did not wake up until 7:00 a.m.! we had turned some sort of magic, wonderful leaf (but of course you know that is not the ending because it only happened once, and that was a few nights ago)... well, that morning we quickly learned that he had a fever... his first fever as a little earthling! so, it was something about the fever that made him decide it felt better to sleep than to pester his parents... and, he felt 100% himself the following day, and we have been back to our regular sleep habits ever since... the end! but, it is so, so nice to know that it is possible for him to sleep through the night... that it's not that he has some sort of defect that prevents it from even being possible. one day it will happen again!

probably not tonight though. sigh.