Nikki's Night Dream

Every couple of nights for the past few months Nikki has woken me up because she had a "night dream". She then shnuggles down in bed with me. I wait for her to fall asleep and then take her back to her room. She then wakes up again and comes back. She needs to be right next to me and usually wiggles me to the very edge of our huge bed so I am holding on for dear life. I do not cope well without sleep, I turn into a raving lunatic, I hate how bitchy I become. I know that the "night dream" is merely an excuse because she just wants to be near me. The truth is I love having her with me, that little body next to mine is really one of my favourite things but not between the hours of 10pm to 6am. Last night I lost it. Third night in a row. I felt so bad as a dejected little person carried her woo woo ( a stuffed dog almost as big as she is) both of them with their heads hung low as they went back to bed. She came back three times to test my resolve, me too tired to actually get out of bed and even escort her back to bed, the last guilt ridden words, "But mommy, I just want to shnuggle you". Heart breaking, resolve strong, I have a closing today possibly two, can't afford a brain fog from lack of sleep. That little voice, that little body. Too cute for her own good, really.