Works For Us Wednesday



This is Faith's new bed...yes, it is an easy chair, but it works!!

When Faith was born she slept.  She was so medically fragile and drugged that she rarely ever woke up.

We came home and Faith slept.  She was one of the only kids who would lay down in her crib, awake and fall asleep on her own.  She had the feeding tube then...

7 Months old she pulls out the tube and we have this "non-fragile" child.  We get to cuddle her in bed with us:-)  We were so scared to do that before, scared of the tube coming out.

We snuggled and loved on her so much.  She was ours and she was no longer fragile.  She had come so far and we wanted to enjoy it.  So, she started sleeping with us.

Fast forward - Faith is 3 years and 5 months old.  Faith will not, never, ever, ever...sleep on her own in her own bed. 

We have been sleeping on the couch, because it is the only place she would sleep.  We have taken turns sleeping upstairs. 

We have slept in her bed with her, to keep her there.  We have sat outside her door and cried while she screamed in her room to come out.

We have struggled and we have been exhausted...

A few days ago we had a flood in our basement.  The extra chair from our living room set was brought up to the back hall so it wouldn't get ruined.

Pete thought it would be funny to see if Faith would sleep in the chair in her room...cause it is the same as the living room...I humored his idea...

Tonight, Faith is fast asleep.  On her chair.  In her bedroom.  Yup, Pete was right!!  You probably won't hear me say that again though...

We will be moving her nice toddler bed out of her room tomorrow...

Faith has a new bed!!

Dreams...the kind you have when you sleep...

My dreams have been so vivid lately. I can remember furniture, faces, words that I read. I don't think they have ever been so vivid, except for the time that I dreamed my husband died...that one was waaay to clear to me...

But, it has been a while since that has happened to me, and I am sure that I dream, I just haven't been remembering them at all.

A few weeks ago, I dreamt about one of my friends who went to school with me. I emailed her and let her know, but I wonder if she thought that was just weird...so, I wondered if I should tell people or not...

Then, the beginning of this week, I dreamt about a giant, literally. It was kind of like David and Goliath, but there was no David it was me. I could actually see myself running through the city and chasing after this giant. The giant was huge. Over the buildings in the city. For some reason he came into the city (it was Toronto, or some other big metropolis) and started teasing people. I can't remember really, what he was saying, but he was there. No armour, not really biblical...(I wondered at first).

He was running away for some reason and I was chasing in him the car. The roads were almost like the ones in the Dr. Seuss books, all windy and loopy, and I was driving down them after the giant and when I got close enough to deal with him, I woke up...

So, I probably have some giant in my life that I haven't dealt with yet...I don't know...what do you think?

Then last night I had another wild dream, and remembered most of it...It wasn't about me this time, but about a different friend. I emailed her already to see what she thinks. This one was cool though, I can remember some of the words and definitely remember the picture, with detail, that I looked at...

I am glad that I can remember these dreams again. I used to remember them all the time and then I think I just got too tired to dream...or remember but now they are back!! Now I need to get book and write them all down...maybe one day they will have some meaning to me.