Here We Go Again

I (Dan) normally do not take the time to post blogs on this account, but there are certain moments that demand that the attention of my pen.  Some who have followed some of the previous posting on this site might have remembered a certain story about Jessica in some what an awake/sleep state talking about going to church with aliens. Well, last night we had a similar episode. This one however was not as funny to me as it was to Jessica.

Yesterday we spent the day in Savannah. We had actually made our way down south for a family wedding. After the wedding I took our little family to down town Savannah to walk along river street and carouse in and out of the familiar squares. It was a great day recalling many memories. Jessica and I actually spent much of our time before we were married walking the same streets years ago. After our short date we went to see some old friends of mine that I had grown up with in the church (emmavaphotography.blogspot.com). We ended up leaving Savannah pretty late, which meant that we arrived home in Atlanta really late. Because Halle decided that she did not want to go to sleep till 2:00 A.M. the previous night Jessica was already super tired. Combine the lack of sleep with a long day leaves Jessica susceptible to...interesting behavior. 

Upon arriving home we wasted no time going straight to bed. Sometime around 3A.M. Jessica starts mumbling and churching in her sleep.  I really don't think a whole lot about it and try to go back to sleep. Right as I am getting ready to doze off again Jessica goes from moaning in her sleep to wailing. In all honesty it was somewhat erie. As I am rolling over to try to nudge her and wake her up from a bad dream, Jessica goes from light wailing, to wailing the name of Jesus. "Jesuuuus....Jesuuus.....JESUUUUS.

At this point I am sincerely creeped out. I quickly shake her to wake her up not only to free her from some terrible nightmare, but to get her to stop screaming and then go change the sheets since I likely messed myself.  

On the other side of Jessica lays Halle as all of this is going on. Halle amazingly stayed asleep. When Jessica started screaming, Halle's arms shot up in the air. I am not sure if raising her hands in worship was the intent of our little girls heart but raise her hands she did.

"Jessica, Jessica, Jessica are you Ok?" 

"I'm fine"

Obviously she was not fine or she would not have been screaming for Jesus in her sleep.

"Do you wanna talk about it, what happened?" 

Her response was even more frightening than her wails.

"Blood....Evil.....Everywhere"

With that Jessica went to sleep, leaving me wide eyed curled up in the fetal position.  Today on the way home from church Jessica just laughed about. I am glad she found that funny. I personally could go a decade without that ever happening again. Nonetheless, I love my beautiful sweet wife and look forward to other stories that might come as a result of her lack of sleep.

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