get in the blanket. quick

Jispa likes to come into our bed and sleep. At the heart of it I kind of love it but the problem is that the bed isn’t that big and surely isn’t big enough for the three of us. And it especially shrinks in size when she decides to twist and turn. She normally gets these fits of coming in every night after a vacation when she gets used to sleeping with us in the same room.
She always comes to me in the middle of the night with some excuse or the other. The standard papa response is, come in, sleep here. I am normally too zoned out to think too much and I don’t want to spoil my sleep. The sleep next to me prescription works in an amazing wide variety of conditions including the good old stomach ache and the plain I not getting sleep syndrome.
Now in the morning I try and ask her why did she actually come to me in the night? Today morning she told me that she just came to tell me that she wasn’t getting sleep and I simply put her to sleep next to me. It’s not her fault. I told her, you rascal. You knew that I would put you to sleep here and that’s why you came. Else why would you suddenly get sleep next to me and not on your own? That too in the middle of the night! ‘dad, don’t ask me too many questions. I am sleepy’. Ya sure.
But at the same time I have to tell her that some to me in the might but don’t come just to sleep. Come for a genuine reason. But I also know that’s its not possible to make out a genuine reason from another. Not getting sleep is a genuine reason. So ia m not too harsh on her. I speak to her with a smile and make fun of it while talking to her. I have also appealed to her caring self. I have told her that when she comes in at night and sleeps next to me and since the bed isn’t that big, I am squeezed for space and I end up aggravating my back. Well its does happen so I am not lying. That works at times.
Jasmine has a simple solution to all this. Next time when she comes in at night, just let me know. I will go to sleep in Jispa’s bed and papa and baby can sleep peacefully. Something tells me that Jasmine has given up on me. She knows where my heart is. Hehe.
But the problem is less acute in summer. In winter is in and out of the blanket creating a whole mess. At stable and moderate night temperatures she moves less. She also stays nice and snug if the temperature drops a lot or if the AC is on full blast. So these days its not really much of an issue.
A ha… what did I just realize. An opposite of sorts. I want to have her sleeping next to me and I want her to sleep on her own. How are they reconciling. I they are in a manner of speaking in some way. Go figure.