My goal this week is to be in bed by 9 pm. So far it's Tuesday night at 11 pm and instead of sleeping I'm blogging. (At least I'm meeting my goal to blog more often.) I'm a mother of two under three with a self-employed husband who owns a pool installation company and it's the middle of July. No, I'm not crazy, but I am so tired that I have fallen asleep before hitting "Send" on more than a few texts.
(Once I fell asleep with my thumb on the screen so long that it went into rearrange and delete mode. I rearranged some icons but I'm not sure if I deleted any. (How should I know, I was asleep!) So tired my memory has gaps in it of recent events. So tired that my husband had an entire conversation with me about going to the store to look at flooring that I was asleep for. I don't even talk in my sleep, but I woke up a little annoyed he had gone without me since he knew I wanted to be there for the colour choice. Good thing I remembered to believe the best in him and not get angry.)
All this brings me to the question how does a mother get more sleep without hiring a nanny?
We can't afford a nanny. We can't even afford a dog walker. Like most people we have to do things ourselves, including sleep. Tonight I had to choose between sleep and sanity. My living/dining room has been a disaster for weeks, and worsened on the weekend. Many people will say disaster when they really mean a few dishes were left on the coffee table and a pair of shoes on the floor, but I mean disaster. Half of the furniture was strewn about the middle of the room. Boxes of the kitchen junk drawer (emptied over a month ago so I could sort it) and several dining table clearing sweeps sit on the couch. Toys are everywhere, the front entryway consists of a couple pieces of 1/4" plywood that is not screwed down, and there is drywall dust, sand, dog fur all over the floor. Hopefully you're getting the awful picture because I didn't take one. Instead I tidied and swept, tidied and swept, moved furniture then swept some more (labs shed a lot).
Some of you may be wondering how I am physically able to do this when I've been on the couch for the past 9 weeks with a bad sciatica flare up. I'm so happy to say I'm walking again! Looking after my own kids again, even loading my own dishwasher! More on all that another time. Back to me hard at work.
Did I mention it's been the hottest day of the year so far? So here I am sweating and probably pushing my weakened, and still not completely better, muscles too far; definitely missing out on desperately needed sleep (see above), and what did I end up with? A room I can breath and relax in. It still has far to go (hopefully we'll get that floor in this weekend) but there are actually clean and clear spaces in it!
Yes I will be even more tired tomorrow - perhaps I should leave the operating of vehicles and heavy machinery to others - and yet I feel good. My body is sore but my mind is clear. And now my eyelids are heavy. Thankfully there is the morning shower and hot, black coffee. Too bad I don't have a chef or housekeeper either.
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