TGINT

It's been a few weeks, or maybe even a month now, since Koji suddenly stopped taking naps. I don't really want to know how long it's been because it feels much longer than that. As many readers of this blog have likely already heard me explain ad nauseum (thanks for listening, friends!), if I try to force him to sleep, it takes him more than an hour to go to sleep, and then he sleeps too long, and then he doesn't go to bed until 11 p.m.!

No one ever warned me that "sleep" would become such an obsession! To think of the days when I would go to bed, sleep all night and then wake up in the morning and not even have the courtesy to thank God for that privelege. Well! Just proves that annoying cliche "you don't know what you have until it's gone" is oh so true...

My point here is that today, right now, he is taking a nap. I am SO HAPPY, and yet, so bewildered. I hardly know what to do with myself! Should I read the newspaper? Make a phone call? Take a nap myself? To think that I can do all this and more is almost too much. Next time you do these things without anyone shouting MAMA MAMA MAMA at you, please say a prayer of thanks.

As I am.

P.S. The end result of Koji's three hour nap and then, quality time with some washable window markers and a mirror is that I've been able to put up eight posts! However, some of them aren't visible on this page, so if you have time and interest, please click on "January 2006" under "Archives" for full access to all I've worked on today. Happy looking!