Tired Behind the Eyes

Derick is going through another phase...no naps! Yikes! Just when I was getting into a routine of at least napping while he did during the day, he goes and changes that on me. At the risk of sounding like a mope, I am SO bummed! That was my time to rest during the day! For the last few days, Derick hasn't been able to sleep during nap time. Saturday, he even said to me, "Mommy, I'm having trouble going to sleep." What a smart little boy. To save my sanity, I am enforcing the rule of taking a rest....he must stay in his bed with the lights off and be quiet for at least one hour. It does help. I hope he'll grow out of this and go back to taking naps. For all our sakes! So, without naps and Darla keeping me up until 12 or 1am, I am very tired, so much so, that I can feel it behind my eyes. You know that feeling....the ache when you close them, the dry eyelids, the feeling that if I sat still in a quiet room, I just might nod off for a bit....