Overnight?!?!

I am having a little dilemma.  Most will not see this as such, but I do.  My in-laws want to take Logan overnight this Saturday!  This comes at a time that Logan is waking every 2 hours (I still can’t find a reason for why this is) and I am getting little sleep at night as a result. 

Why is this a dilemma for me?  Well, because it’s already hard enough to be away from Logan all day everyday while I’m at work…then to give up a whole NIGHT without him.  I will miss him terribly.  I will be beside myself when I wake up in the middle of the night, waiting to hear those little pleas on the monitor from Logan to come and get him to feed him and put him back to sleep. 

What would I do with a WHOLE NIGHTS SLEEP?  It’s been so long since I’ve had such a thing.  Most think it’s been just 8 months since I had my last full nights sleep, but that is a dream.  Logan has always been an early riser, since about this time last year!  He would wake me up at about Midnight and then again around four in the morning when I was pregnant!  Let me tell you, things haven’t changed much since then.

So the obvious answer is to let his grandparents take him for that single night, that one night that I can snuggle up with my husband, with no monitor on, and sleep the whole night threw (though I know that won’t happen, my body is just too used to my current schedule).  The obvious answer is to let my boy have one night away from his parents now, so later we can take a trip (after his first birthday) without him and it won’t be a completely new thing for all of us.

So it sounds like I have made my mind up, I need to let go, I need to let my boy grow up a little bit more, and I need to let someone else care for him for that one night.  OH, it’s so hard to do this, but I know that I must at some point.  So, anyone out there going to be up at three in the morning on Sunday (Halloween)?  I know that I will be.  I’ll be waiting for those little pleas from the next room and trying to tell myself to go back to sleep and enjoy this treat of a full nights sleep.