Possibly when you couldn't sleep you would get out of bed and go to your manual activity workshop to pass the time and so that fatigue was felt.

One evening around 2 a.m., an evening like every other night at the moment, you couldn't sleep and got up, discreetly left the room without waking up Carlos and went to your workshop. You settled down and the pottery began. A few minutes later you felt hands larger than yours land on yours and Carlos broke the silence

“can’t sleep cariño..?”