Why can’t I get in bed before 12?
I blame my mother. I think she’s been to bed before 1am only once in the last 20 years. I’m DOG tired when it comes to 4:30 every day, and yet, here I am, still up at almost - HOLY CRAP - 1am.
Every friggin day I plan on getting into bed before 12. Yet, I can remember only once in the last 6 months that it actually happened.
My girls get up by 8 every morning (yeah, yeah - I’m sure some of you would kill for 8am), but they usually don’t go go bed until at least 9, so it all evens out. Now that they’re not taking naps on a regular basis, that means they’re WIDE FRIGGIN AWAKE at 4:30 when Mama wants to r.e.s.t.
So, at this hour, I promise, I am 5 minutes away from my pillow. I MUST stop now to get in bed. Ahhh… sleep… And please pray, hope, wish-upon-a-star for me that the girls sleep in until at LEAST 9am.
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I hear ya! I get in bed by 11pm every night. Now if I manage to fall asleep before midnight, it’s a good night. I might as well stay up until midnight and get more done. You know, important stuff like, blogging or reading a good book.
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I hope they slept in for you! I too would almost kill to get to bed before midnight. Well, these days being before 1am would be nice. LOL!
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Oh yes! I’m dragging all day at work and hardly can keep my eyes open, yet when it comes down to 10 or 11pm, I get all this energy and can’t get to bed before midnight at the earliest. It’s pretty darn annoying…
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I know. I do the same thing. I trade in some precious sleep for alone time all the time.
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I have the same problem, except my kids get up about 6am. So, every afternoon around 2pm I can’t hold my eyes open.
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Angie, I just read a few of your posts. I liked the booger excavation. I think there must be boogies in the air, because I just read another blog about this guy eating some. EEEWWWW! Any way, kudos to you. I also had the same issue w/the Nuby cups. But I figured for $1.00 @ my local Walmart I might as well just buy a new one. So I switched from the ones w/the silicone spouts to the hard plastic w/the removable valves.
Good luck. -Gail
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I can’t get to bed before midnight either. Mostly it’s because this girl, Angie, keeps IMing me and won’t let me go!
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One mom of three I know has a set “quiet time” for her girls — they have to be in their room reading or laying in bed — just doing something “quiet” so that mom can have a little sanity — EVERY DAY. Praise jebus for that one. The older ones are 2 and 4, maybe you could try instituting a plan like that.
Or you could do the Parent Hack “tattoo parlor” and let the girls go at you with washable markers while you lie on the floor. LOL
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Thank you for making me feel vindicated regarding my owl like tendencies. I lay down around 1 as well thinking to myself - hello! all the other mothers in the world are sound asleep, tomorrow it is midnight or else. I have no idea who I’m talking to, but it doesn’t work anyway. So thank you!
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