Okay, so I learned an important rule of blogging. As a result of what I learned, I will no longer post about something good until AFTER it actually happens. Ashlyn, sensing that I had posted about her going to sleep at a normal time, woke up within minutes of the blog post and kept us up until the wee hours of the morning.
That's alright; I'm still counting it as a victory, albeit a small one. She fell asleep in her nursery, at a time when we wanted, and that was a first. She's almost doing it now, which is a second. And no, this doesn't violate my rule because I'm not saying she's asleep, or that she'll stay asleep. I'm just saying that she's in her room and she's not trying to wake up the neighbors.
So there's hope for a brighter future, it just may take awhile to get there.