grabbing and fiddling with the fourth wall

Things occasionally turn out to not be as bad as it's tempting to suspect they might end up being. We might be back to sleeping-through-the-night-albeit-with-05:00-starts rather than fully returning to the full-on blear (with added Nicky-being-back-at-work) of letting-him-cry or retrieve-reassure-replace (whichever it was appeared to work the last time). That still leaves only six hours, so I'll go to sleep now.