I need to practice what I preach! (or maybe not)

I've always said that letting your kids sleep with you is not a good thing. For more than one reason. And up until now I've stood by that. Up until now. And now that I've discovered the only way I'll get any good sleep at night is to let Evan sleep with us? I've changed my mind. Evan is back to not sleeping very well. It can be very frustrating most of the time because we've been dealing with sleepless nights for 18 months. That makes for a tired mommy. And when mommy is tired she can get a little cranky =) I'm not sure how to get Evan to sleep better. I don't want to let him cry-it-out because that takes FOREVER and he can get pretty loud when's he's mad. AND he's sharing a room with Katie. So...I bring him to our bed and let him sleep with us. Not sure why, but he sleeps so much better in our bed. I've always said I would never co-sleep with any of my kids because I didn't want to be 'that' parent. Well, I guess I am now that parent. But, here's the deal. As frutrated as I might get when it's 3 a.m. and Evan is being noisy I have to remind myself that at least he's here. So many couples have a hard time becoming parents to begin with and I've been blessed with 4 beautiful, healthy children. And then I start to think of my friends that have had to bury babies before they even got to bring them home. Or the families that get only a very short time with their babes. After thoughts like that I am very willing to change my way of doing things and let Evan sleep with me. So, I will no longer tell moms that co-sleeping might be a bad idea. Evan is big enough now that I am not worried about rolling over on him. And he sleeps between Aaron and I so he won't fall out of bed. AND...I don't bring him to our bed until I have tried for a while to have him sleep in his bed. That means I give up around 3 a.m. I still wish he would sleep all night ion his own bed. But if that's not how it's going to go down, then I'm going to enjoy snuggling my youngest. It won't always be like this.