Welcome to my nightmare.

Well, not exactly my nightmare actually it was my daughter.  She is 19 months old and to the best we can figure out she had her first true nightmare last night.  I went to bed at approximately 1:00AM this morning (after finishing The Departed which was fantastic), and about 25 minutes after getting into bed we hear a blood curdling scream come over the monitor from my daughters room.  Now normally if she wakes up you hear her stir around a bit making some noises before she gets frustrated, this was not the case.  She went from absolute silence to inconsolable screaming. 

I got her out of bed and we got her calmed down.  After about half an hour I put her back in bed, as soon as her head hit the pillow she immediately stood up crying with her arms outstretched for me to pick her back up.  We were up all night with her, she fell asleep for maybe an hour and a half in my wife's arms but that was it.  She refused to go back into her bed, I think we tried about 8 times.  My wife couldn't even get her to take a nap longer than about half an hour today.  She was extremely fussy throughout the day.  I finally got her to go to bed tonight around 8pm.  This is completely unusual for her.  Best we can figure it was just a nightmare.  She is in good health and when we got her up she was happy to play in the living room (even though both my wife and I could barely keep our eyes open).

Being a father has shown me challenges I never thought I would face, it has also brought me great joy.  Even today when I struggled to get through work because I was so tired and irritable I instantly forgot all of that when I got home and had her run up to me.  We play every night for an hour or two before she goes to bed.  My wife works nights and I work days so we both almost live the lives of single parents.  It's rough but I wouldn't trade any minute of it.

I'm not sure what leads me to post these blogs on the website.  Maybe it's some sort of release, I'm not sure but I do find it calming.  I read several everyday ranging from the new games coming out to people sharing both life's joys and challenges.  Some people have questioned lately some of the blog content, whether it's people trying to get more points or just trying to stay in the top 4.  I'm not about any of that.  I like reading other's stories that they post and hope that some of you can enjoy some of mine/

But then again if you don't, I won't lose any sleep over it, that is unless she has another nightmare.