Troy
Maeve was sleeping soundly beside me, Will and Charlie nestled in her arms. Oliver was asleep on my bare chest, his mouth moving in a suckling motion as he slept. I rested my hand over his back, closing my eyes for a moment. Oli seemed to melt into me, succumbing to full sleep as the minutes ticked by.
It was not very late, but getting all three boys to sleep was an exhausting undertaking. It was not uncommon that one, or both of us, fell asleep with the boys while we fumbled through their bedtime routine.
I waited a few minutes longer before slowly rising from the bed, careful not to wake any of my sleeping family members. I patted Oli softly on the back while I crossed the room to where their bed was, which was just a twin-sized mattress with a railing all the way around it, lik
