TIME TO TURN IN

Last night, we did something we don't do often enough. We went to bed at a reasonable hour.

By reasonable, it was just after 10 p.m. Yes, that is early for us.

Don't get me wrong. We are often asleep before 10 p.m. We just don't happen to be in our bed.

With the Little One around, we want to spend as much time as possible with him. Once he goes to bed, we work on getting stuff ready for the next day. By stuff, I mean bottles, spare clothes for the Little One, lunches for ourselves, etc.

We also want to do our best to find time for each other. That time together often consists of trying to watch an episode of one of the many shows saved in our DVR. At last check, we had four episodes of Parks and Recreation, two episodes of Mr. Sunshine (which we have never watched), an episode of Perfect Couples (which we have started to watch on two different nights so far) plus some episodes of The Nate Berkus Show (which I did not put in the DVR).

Usually we get to see about 15 minutes of a show before one or both of us is out cold. We're both fans of falling asleep on the couch, although that is changing more and more as we age.

See, we used to wake up on the couch, go upstairs and go to bed. Now, we wake up on the couch, go upstairs, change the Little One's diaper, go to the bathroom ourselves, complain about being so stiff, feed the Little One, realize we need to brush our teeth and then finally go to bed.

It's not the best routine in the world. 

Which is why, starting last night, we are making a better effort to get ourselves to bed. If that means falling even further behind on our favorite shows, so be it. 

We need the sleep.

EDIT: We went to bed as planned, but the Little One woke up several times throughout the night sick and congested. So we wound up not sleeping very much despite our best efforts. Now we really need the sleep :-)