Beep In The Night

I've finally given into the fact the puppy goes to sleep around 9pm and gets up anywhere between 5am and 6:30am. That means if I want a decent nights sleep, I better get to bed soon after she does. Last night it was 10pm for me. Great! Should finally get a full nights sleep.

Nope!

Around 3:30am I hear one of the upstairs smoke detectors low battery beep. Crap! Can't let it go. It will beep all night and wake the dog. I get up to pull the batteries. As I'm standing on the chair in the hall, I realize there's something alive on the couch next to me. It's Jen. Her cold/allergies had her up and on the couch at midnight. In my annoyance I ask why she couldn't fix the smoke detector. She says she fixed the cordless phone 10 minutes prior when it's low battery beep started. Ok. Fair enough, plus she agreed to take Gretchen out when she woke from all the commotion.

Back to bed to finish sleeping.

Nope!

Not 10 minutes later something beeped from downstairs. What the hell? It sounded like the lightening/rain detector (i.e. invisible fence), but that's right under our bedroom and I didn't hear it from there. We got up again and went downstairs to investigate. The only other thing we could think it to be was the downstairs smoke detector. I hit the test button. Nothing happened. More dead batteries? Instead of just pulling them out, I replaced them. Having an automatic live fire in the stove in the basement has me a little more cautious with this detector.

Finally back to sleep. At 6:30 the whining started. Time to get up. The night is through.

I still feel like I haven't slept.

- b