The Unfairness of Life (lesson #56)

Explain to me how my son can remain perfectly and blissfully asleep whilst letting loose a squeal that would make little piglets proud and subsequently wakes up every other member of this family.

Violently jerked awake by tiny baby screams in the middle of a REM cycle, the Husband and I both snapped open bloodshot eyes and rolled around in bed like thrashing eels trying to figure out why our son was so horribly displeased with the world only to discover that he screams in his sleep.

Talk about a phrase you never thought you'd utter with any degree of seriousness..."he screams in his sleep."

What has my world come to?

the deceptively peaceful look of a sleeping infant