cirque du bebe

In a previous post, I’ve mentioned DH’s snoring and how it is causing a major lack of sleep for me. One night it got so bad that I decided to sleep in the hallway between our bedroom and our son’s bedroom. As I laid on the floor trying to get comfortable, I could STILL hear his snoring even with our door shut. I thought about how to rearrange our furniture in the upper floor of our home so we’d have two completely separate living quarters. That’s how angry I was at the time.

The plan was to move his computer into our bedroom and my dresser into the office. Get a daybed or probably one of those bunk beds where you could put my desk underneath since the room we’re calling “our office” is small. The next morning, I told DH of my plan. Only then did he realize how serious I was about this snoring thing.

He suggested we try alternative methods first. We tried the Breathe Right strips. Nope. We tried the Snore Relief spray. Lasted about 45 minutes. We’re now down to ear plugs for me and the monitor turned up sitting on my night stand so I can hear our lil’ Monkey should he cry.

I don’t like this solution. I hate wearing ear plugs to bed. It’s a strange feeling and I worry that I might not hear lil’ Monkey or something else (tornadoes, fire, any catastrophic disaster my paranoid brain can come up with at 3 a.m. in the morning as I lay awake).

So we’ve decided that the “office” is going BACK to basement where we had it prior to Monkey’s birth. Well, not quite. It used to be in the room in our basement we now call the “guest room” but we’ve decided that room is now going to be the cats new home. PERMANENTLY. Our desks will go in various areas in the rest of the basement and we’ll figure out the wiring, networking, ecetera somehow.

The guest bed and associated furniture, however, will be going back to their original spots in the room next to Monkey’s which is now our “office”. The “cat room” as it will now be called will have miscellaneous furniture in it that we can’t fit elsewhere in our house and we’re planning on buying one of those really nice cat trees for them.

This is a lot of work. We started this weekend by cleaning up the various Christmas storage boxes and baby items meant for storage since I neglected to put any of this stuff in our crawl space after the holidays. So we’re about one-fifth of the way there. But sleep is on the horizon and hopefully, I’ll be a less cranky La Folle as a result.

On a side note: Anyone’s toddler eaten a bee before? We had a dead one in the track of our sliding glass door and Monkey ate it about an hour ago. We’re keeping an eye on him but darn! The kid refused TOAST this morning but will eat BEES?!