January 1st! (it's not a warm and fuzzy kind of day)

Well, it's here and...

I am not off to a good start!

But that's OK right?

Because I'm a normal schmoe and this stuff is REAL.

I'm not promising an enlightening post each time I write - there will be ups and downs and today is a down for sure. But we can all relish that it's not going to be picture perfect right?

I made the mistake of staying up until midnight to watch the ball drop, hang out with my husband and tell one another Happy New Year before trying to get some sleep.

A baby started in around 2am crying. I tried to wait him out...

Long story short, he didn't go back to sleep until after 4. The baby who decided to sleep through the night (and noise) was up and ready to go by 5:50... Happily jumping up and down in his crib...

*sigh*

So that marks down night 400 something of sleep being under what... Uhm, 12:30 to 2 = 1.5 hours and then 4:15 to about 5:50... = another 45 minutes of sleep...

Now I'm no fool, I do try to go up to bed by 10 pm most nights unless there is stuff to do, and we all know there is stuff to do before bed!

Lunches to get ready, find clothes, back packs packed (not me doing all this but herding the other children to get their stuff together) You know, Mom stuff.

This is one area I am trying to organize better in 2014

Make big kids do their stuff without me telling them 1001 times to do the stuff. Add this to the list!

It's like a broken record... I say the same things each night then tell them "boo hoo" in the morning when they are in a mad rush out the door.

Well, you'd think they'd learn by now but, it's just not there yet.

Any ideas on that one?

Here are some of the consequences my little ones faces for not being bed ready and morning ready for me.

-Loss of computer time
-Loss of ipod
-Loss of play time
-Loss of video game / tv time.
-Chores

You'd think she's lost so much of all that this past school year that she'd be up and ready to go, but it's just not sunk in quite yet.

HELLO 11 year old child?..... *(Picture a cartoon here or me wrangling her by her neck)*... JOKE, it's a joke people, don't call CPS on me just yet!

Anyways..

Chaos. We live in a bit of chaos around here daily.

I'd like to erase the chaos this year along with the whole take care of ME thing... because that IS part of taking care of me when you think about it.

OK - on to Today - January 1st.

Today has been a very sloth like day.

My body hurts, my eyes sting and I've had quite a few cups of coffee to try to get through it.

Oh and NO please, the whole nap when the kids nap thing doesn't work. I can't tell you how many times I've been offered this sage advice and just smile...

For one, any extra sleep I get in the day after 10 am has me up at night for some reason, staring at a black ceiling wishing and praying I could fall asleep while everyone else snores around me. I've tried it. Countless times, especially when the Hubby is home and I can take a break and catch a 20 min nap. I'm burnt each time with insomnia.

and Two - on normal work days around here, I'm still entering data during first nap and let's not even mention the list of mommy things one needs to do in that very short one hour and 20 minute nap they take after I finish up my data entry.
Showering, laundry, breathing, making myself food, washing bottles, preparing them something to eat when they get up, checking the bills, cleaning up breakfast messes, socks and shoes that were left for me to trip over, phone calls that need made during a quiet moment... it goes on and on.

WOW - Today is just a whine fest of sleepiness!! I'm typing and looking at this like "Shut up lady! good lord"

OK, I have to get a grip on myself... but, but

How on earth am I going to try to briskly walk or exercise when I'm feeling like a wet noodle, completely sleep deprived?

I don't know. I really don't.

Just thinking about how I'm starting off this new year makes me tired already.

SO, I'm chalking this one up to a BIG FAT ZERO.

0 - 0

I mean who can even think straight on 3 hours of sleep.

Here's to a better tomorrow!


I'm not even spell checking this one. How's that for effort?