Breaking the parenting rules

(Inspired by LMM)

• My son is a horrible sleeper. (period)
• He wakes up multiple times in the middle of the night as if he were a newborn.
• He will be three in September, so he is clearly past the newborn stage.
• When my hubby travels, he creeps into my bed around 1 a.m. (usually, I'm in a deep sleep that I don't notice)
• Last night, I did. :)
• He climbed into my bed and I smiled.
• He arranged the pillows to the way he wanted them and then curled into Mommy.
• His feet have to be touching my legs for him to be comfortable.
• He tosses and turns for a bit and in a matter of minutes, he's asleep.
• I hold him close and give his nose kisses.
• I love kissing his nose and his toes (it's what I've done since the day he was born)
• I smile, in hopes that his eyes crack open and he sees me smiling at him, but he doesn't.
• I'm okay with that.
• I'm breaking the parenting rules by letting my toddler sleep in my bed every.single.night.
• Is that bad?
• This is just a battle that I don't wish to pick, because secretly, I enjoy him wanting to have his Mommy close to him.
• When he does this, it cancels out all the crankiness that I dealt with earlier in the day.
• Until around the 5/6 o'clock hour when he's yelling from the couch in the living room.
• "MOMMMMMMMYYYYYYYY! I want chocolate milk. I want to watch teeeeeeveeeeeeee. MOMMMMMMYYYYYYY, come out here!"
• Then I moan and groan because I got less than 6 hours of sleep and now I'm groggy.
• And I'm out of creamer for my coffee....
• But I love my son.
• The good. The bad. The ugly.
• and I look forward to my 1 a.m. snuggle time!