Due to my night owl nature combined with having young kids, I am frequently more tired than I would like to be. I always mean well and do try to get to bed at a decent hour, but it’s hard because my second wind kicks in. More than any other day, though, I hate to be tired on a Monday. It just feels so wrong and depressing to start the week off exhausted.
Unfortunately for me, I didn’t get to bed until about 12:15 am which was already starting things off on the wrong foot since that meant I had all of six hours before my alarm would go off. Yikes. On top of that, I woke up at 4:15 this morning by Breanna hacking and coughing. I did sort of doze on and off but I woke up every time she coughed again (luckily for her, she didn’t seem to really wake up, although she is a bit groggy this morning) and I also had trouble getting back into a deep sleep because in the back of my head I knew I didn’t really have that much time before I’d need to get up.
So I’m running on a little more than four hours of disrupted sleep which is bad enough in and of itself. However, I also got a call from the school; the grade one and two classes are attending a play about the environment today and I had asked if they needed me to chaperone. It seemed they were fine but Hayley’s teacher called me back to say that the other grade two class is missing a parent and they wondered if I could come after all. Of course I said yes because it makes me feel better to be there while Hayley’s being shuttled about. I was considering lying down for an hour or two but I’d rather go help out.
On top of that, when we get back home I’ll have to slam through whatever’s left in my work load and eat supper at a decent hour because I have a Governing Board meeting back at the school this evening. Judging by the amount of topics listed on the agenda I’m betting it’s going to be a long one and I’ll consider myself lucky if it’s wrapped up by 9 pm. I can’t complain too much though, because one of the other mothers going on the field trip is on the board and even Hayley’s teacher is on the board, so we’ll all be tired tonight!
I think that by the time I get home for the last time tonight, take the dog out for her last pee, get myself a cup of green tea and a treat from the Halloween bag, I’ll be more than ready to crash and crash HARD in bed. Here’s hoping I get a good solid sleep throughout the night so that I feel more awake than I do right now.
Hoo boy, it’s going to be a long day.
You have all that and yet you still managed to post today. Good on ya! I’m the same as you – I always have a second wind late in the evening that makes it tough to go to sleep. I always wake up exhausted and then have the best intentions for going to bed early but I rarely listen to myself. And the cycle repeats. I hope you have a good sleep tonight.
Sounds like my day too. got a migraine yet?
If push comes to shove, sometimes you have to learn to say “No” even to something you would LOVE to do.
Marilyn – I figured I’d better post in the morning or all I’d manage by night time was “uhhhhh, tired.”
Andrea – Not quite a migraine but I did indeed have a steady headache straight across the front of my head. Luckily it was gone when I got up this morning.
Richard – There wasn’t much I could say no to, I had already volunteered my services for the field trip and they were counting on me, and as a member of the board I need to be at the meetings as much as possible (especially these days with a re-zoning issue going on). Honestly, the biggest problem was that I didn’t get a good enough sleep, but I was already committed to the other things when that happened. I lived. 🙂
Oh God do i know this going to bed late thing – but I get so caught up in ‘mommy time’ the hours slip by so fast!
That play sounds amazing – too bad we live so far away.