I Slept for Eight Hours Last Night

Yes, this is noteworthy. Never happens, especially in this last trimester. So, I provide for you a checklist. Secrets, if you will, to a great night of sleep when you are 7.5 months along:

• No afternoon naps that day, no matter how tired, whiny and swollen you are
• A miraculously cooperative, quiet 2-year-old in the next room
• Tough, temper-tantrum-filled evening a few hours before from said 2-year-old
• Falling asleep before potentially snore-producing husband
• Absolutely no Klondike bars after 9 pm (and keeping it down to consumption of only one Klondike bar prior to that, rather than two, is also recommended)