Chloe has been asleep for a few minutes and so I lay Abby asleep in her bed (different bedroom). We read a story and Ginger (our dog) joins her just like every night.

BACKSTORY: Poor Abby has had night terrors almost every night until recently. Each episode occurs around 1am, which has always made me wonder what took place around that time with her mom and dad. I have asked several times “what do you see when you are sleeping” trying to get an idea of what wakes her up, but sadly she cannot elaborate. Ginger originally slept with me. Since allowing her to sleep with Abby she sleeps through the night… thank goodness! with my work phone, personal cell phone, and 2 baby monitors my nightstand looks like I work for NASA or something!

This particular night I decided to shower, clean the house, and watch a little non-Disney TV. I got sleep about 11 pm, like normal. Fast forward to about 4 am and I wake up to the face of Abby staring at me… if that wasn’t creepy enough I calmly (easier said than done) ask her what was wrong. She whispers “I see my mommy in the window”. I jump straight out of bed and ask her to repeat what she said… there’s no way I heard what I heard. She repeats the same sentence.

Abby and I walk to her room, as you can imagine my heart is pounding out of my chest at this point. My address is supposed to be confidential. How in the world did her mom find me? She should be in jail, did she get released?! Needless to say I had to put my big girl panties on and look out the window.. NOTHING. I reassured her everything was ok and tucked her back in bed.

Yeah, I didn’t go back to bed.