Project 52, Week 3: I Dreamed a Dream
Oh dreams. I don’t even know what those are anymore. With Little Zoom coming up on 5 months and weighing in at nearly 18 pounds, every book, blogger, and internet google doctor says he should be able to sleep through the night at this point. We’re doing a dreamfeed at 10ish, another feeding at 2ish, and then up for the day at 6ish. Sub 4 hour blocks, though better than the 1-2 hours blocks during the newborn stage, are making it tough to get much solid rest. I’m not sure when the dreaming phase of sleep starts, but I know I’m not hitting it!
Enter Starbucks drive-through. I’m from Seattle, home of Starbucks. I remember several years back when I came across the first Starbucks drive-through. At the time I scoffed at the idea, wondering how lazy a person had to be to hit a drive-through for coffee. What a difference a couple of years make! There are two in my immediate area, and I haven’t set foot in an actual Starbucks in months. Two little ones, an overstuffed diaper bag, and shelves of breakable mugs in a coffee shop are not a place for me and my Zooms right now!
So, because I’m not dreaming real dreams right now, I’ll dream for more drive-through Starbucks locations in our city! I keep telling Mr. Zoom we should have bought stock in the company when Little Zoom was born. I’m certain that I’m keeping our two locations afloat single-handedly.
14 Responses to Project 52, Week 3: I Dreamed a Dream
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I SO wish there was a SB drive through here – I think about it often.
drinking a big cup of strong coffee is what gives me the weirdest dreams of all! here’s sincerely hoping you get some good sleep very soon, that phase is truly exhausting.
I can relate to your lack of sleep! My son slept through the night for the first time at 14 months (which was not too long ago!). He still wakes up some nights. Hopefully your little one is a better sleeper than mine!
I know what you mean! I have a 3 month old who IS sleeping throught the night (I feed him at 10 ish and he sleep until 4 or 5 usually), but my almost 3 year old still wakes up AT LEAST 2 TIMES EVERY NIGHT. It is frustrating and tiring to say the least.
Awww, I know it is tough with very little sleep! It will come. Keep up the good mommy work!
Drive-through coffee is genius LOL – I never realized it until I had my daughter!! haahaa!
Coffee… such a great beginning, middle, and ending of a day. Bliss.
I ♥ Starbucks too. MMmmmm Starbucks. I hope your sleep situation corrects itself soon. Thanks for leaving a sweet comment while visiting today : ) I feel very encouraged.
Stacey
I never needed or wanted caffeine until I had kids. That sleeping through the night is something we desperately desire and the “experts” seem to think it should happen at x time, setting us up for frustration when it doesn’t happen. I have 7 kids. They have all slept through the night when they were ready not when I was. For some it was 3 months, others 18 months. I found the best way for me to get sleep was to just bring them to my bed the first time they woke each night. That way I wasn’t up and down all night.
Also being from the Seattle area, I was surprised by how long it took to Starbucks to jump on the drive thru bandwagon! As a mom, I have really appreciated it. My daughter and I used to just take a drive down to Starbucks as a low-stress way to get out of the house when she was a newborn. Sorry you’re having sleepless nights. My 3 year old doesn’t sleep as well as he did at 3 months either. But I only have myself to blame!
I don’t think I couls start my days without a cup of coffee! Drive though coffee rocks! My day starts at 4 am and it never seems like there is enough sleep to get through the day!
Coffee and drive through coffee at that. Great when you need to get out of the house, because little one’s won’t sleep. I hope that they will soon find sleep for an entire night.
I just wish we had a starbucks fullstop.
Great image!
i’m sitting at the closest starbuck’s to my home right now… it’s 45mins away.
boo.