Note to Self

Avoid brownies and ice cream smothered in caramel sauce in the half hour before you want to nurse the baby one last time and put her to bed for the night. Because not even a 15-minute dance to baby's usual favorite, Jack Johnson, or a midnight walk in the Moby will put baby to sleep for good. Baby will enter an ever-so-light sleep state, lulling mother into a false sense of accomplishment and relief, only to wake up the moment mother sets baby in the bed. And especially avoid said situation when husband has had three beers that evening and thus is dead to the world.