Valiant Warriors or Criminal Masterminds

So Dan was away last night and I hate being alone in the house, ok not alone, there are three kids, but you know what I mean. The sort of have to turn off the lights and run upstairs becuase there is no one to come upstairs after me and do it.  But this particular situation does have some pretty serious silver linings.

1. I can starfish on the bed and have the whole duvet to myself
2. I can watch whatever I want on telly
3. I can take some painkillers when I go to bed without being moaned at for snoring (for some reason i'm even more of a foghorn when I've had to take painkillers)

So my night starts out well...I settle down to watch Call in the Midwives and enjoy a hot chocolate wrapped in my blanket. I go up to bed (ninja style past open doors) at about 8:45 ready to blissfully enjoy my early night in my bed to myself.  My back isn't hurting becuse I took some medicine and all is good in the world.

And then they start...somehow their pshycic connection kicks in and they just know that mummy is alone and enjoying sleeping far too much..

10pm A wakes, I ignore until her cry grows to banchee style scream that even I can't sleep through. Go in and settle her....creap back into my room, just get comfy and wrap my duvet round me and it's T who has run out of water...sort that out, back into bed by 10:40...asleep soon enough

11:10 J wakes with restless legs, get up, rub cream into legs, settle him...crawl back  into bed, get comfy, A wakes with an almighty scream, off to settle her, fall asleep in rocker with A

11:40 wake up in rocker, put A back into bed, crawl into my bed, fall asleep

12:30 T wakes up with nightmare, go in to settle him and reasure him, back into bed, wrap duvet back around me....about to fall asleep and A wakes again, back into her and fall asleep in rocker again

1:45 wake up in rocker and put A back into bed and creap back to bed

2am T wakes with nightmare again, go in to settle, offer reasurance (mumbled 'can't hurt you, it's a dream, good night, love you) back to bed.

6am T & J wake for the day and I drag them into bed with me and bribe them to be quiet for 30 more min while mummy gets a bit more sleep....they last 5 min.....Yawn

So here I was thinking I was trying to raise Valiant Spiritual Warriors when in actual fact they're becoming Masterful Criminals skilled in the arts of torture and sleep deprevation.  Who knew! But at least they get an A+ in something....right?!?!?!?!?!