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"I came home from work yesterday and did my absolute favorite thing in the world (along with root canal and beating my head against bunk beds until I faint): yard work. Lots and lots of yard work. I trimmed hedges, weed whacked, pulled weeds, edged, and got good and filthy and exhausted. Then I came inside when it got dark, poured myself a big glass of iced tea, grabbed a towel and did my kettlebell workout. Yow. My arms. I took a shower before bed, and sank gratefully down onto my pillow, with visions of Ryan Reynolds and Dwayne Johnson fighting for my love dancing in my overtired head, and then got promptly screamed out of my happy place sometime around 12:45AM. Oh, no. Anna is cycling into night terrors again. She had them a lot as a toddler and younger child. Now she&amp;#039;ll go months without them and then they hit again, usually sticking around a week or two. She&amp;#039;ll scream and scream (sometimes with her eyes wide open and no focus at all) at 25-40 minute intervals till around daybreak, and with no memory of them the next day. We&amp;#039;ve never been able to figure out what triggers them, either. So I bundled her into bed with me, soothed her off and on all night long, and then at 5:30 in the morning, I got up and did my cardio exercises before I went to work. I knew if I skipped because I was too tired, I&amp;#039;d just keep skipping. And 31 pounds down is feeling mighty fine, let me tell you. I&amp;#039;m exhausted, but I&amp;#039;m keeping on. I just hope Anna gets through this cycle quickly and I can get some sleep again. Do any of you have kids with night terrors? How do you manage? [Follow Ellie on Twitter and Facebook] "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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