Rich, I promise this isn't a typical Christmas

Some prayers are answered, some are not.

Correction. Some prayers are answered with a yes, some prayers are answered with a no (and some with a not yet; this is something my neighbor Heidi taught me years ago). Christmas Eve, I pleaded that Rich would fall asleep and stay asleep, but that didn’t happen. He woke up constantly. When I came out of the bedroom Christmas morning, I think I relearned the above lesson about prayer. I have had so many prayers answered with a yes lately (see my journal entries from this entire year of school) that it was strange to me that Heavenly Father wouldn’t give us a miracle Christmas Eve. Christmas afternoon, when I rocked Rich in the rocking chair to encourage him to sleep, I fell asleep as well. I woke up with my head bowed in the rocking chair, this little body asleep on me as well. I gently laid him in his crib and, half-asleep, went to bed myself. On the way there, I said a quick, jumbled, weary prayer asking that Rich sleep long and hard if that’s what he needed. I woke up at 2:45, I think, which gave me about two and a half hours of sleep. According to Karen, Rich slept for four hours! So yes, some prayers are answered differently than others.