I am a total wuss.<\/p>\n
Last night, I inadvertently caught a glimpse of the trailer for that new movie called something like “A Haunting in Connecticut.” I went to bed with images of teenage boys vomiting gaseous substances and some little humanoid thing sitting in front of a wall of flames. <\/p>\n
At about 11:30, Signe woke up crying. I’m trying this new thing where I don’t pick her up and rock her back to sleep but instead I stand over her crib and soothe her by talking to her and rubbing her chest. It takes me three times as long to get her to sleep, but it works eventually and I’m hoping it will break her newfound habit of waking up five times each night.<\/p>\n
So when she woke up, I stood over her crib soothing her while trying not to turn around every 30 seconds because I was convinced that the vomiting boy and the weird fire baby were standing behind me. I would say “It’s OK. I’m right here. Go back to sleep.” while holding back groans of fear. To my irrational, awake-in-the-middle-of-the-night mind, it was no coincidence that two of our nightlights went out last night. It was a conspiracy of some supernatural order to make me even more terrified. <\/p>\n
At one point, as Signe tossed and turned and tried to go back to sleep, she reached her hand through the back of her crib to touch the wall. I froze and almost shrieked out “No, don’t you know that the space between your bed and the back wall is where the monsters live?!”<\/p>\n
Seriously. I thought that. I’m 33 years old.<\/p>\n
Of course Signe doesn’t know that. Her biggest fear is that I might try to make her eat peas again today. Actually, she doesn’t even know to fear that. And I’m so jealous!<\/p>\n
Let’s hope Signe doesn’t inherit this particular quirk of mine.<\/p>\n
Now I’m off to buy more nightlights. And backup nightlights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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