Although we live near the beach (and therefore in a temperate climate with little need to use air conditioning), we often keep the windows shut and the A/C on at night to help us sleep well. We live in an apartment building with 32 units, right next door to another identical building. That's a lot of people that we can hear with open windows.
Last night, PJO said that he hadn't been sleeping that well, and maybe we should try the windows open for a change ... I agreed. So we went to sleep late after another firm dinner. Around 4:30AM we heard screaming; the kind of screaming that can only come from infants. And it just. wouldn't. stop! Our next door neighbor had twins in March, and I guess keeping our window shut has prevented us from hearing them much. So after about 40 minutes of listening to this screaming, I angrily got out of bed, shut all our windows and turned up the A/C. Thoughts of telling our neighbor how rude she was for keeping her windows open with two 4-month old children ran through my head.
Then I realized, OMG. This will be us soon! And not just at 5Am, but multiple other times during the night. I think this realization is what kept me from falling back asleep for about 30 minutes ... what have we gotten ourselves into?!?! Talk about a rude awakening!
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