Why yes, I'll have two orders of sleep and a side of sanity please
I love being a parent.
I wanted to make sure I started this post with that sentence so that no one thinks anything less. With that being said, I really really really wish my children would sleep. Well, more I wish they would choose the days I work as days they are willing to sleep all night, rather than my days off. I mean, come on, its not that hard, daddy gets all his hours in three days at work, and if he doesn't pick up overtime, that equals four day weekends every week. That means three nights out of seven, daddy needs to get to bed on time, and get up early. However it always seems to be those three nights that the children dont want to go to bed, have bad dreams and come join me in bed, wake up crying and needing put back to bed, or just dont feel like sleeping so they stay up late and wake up early.
The biggest problem would be with me however. I don't sleep well even when the kids aren't here, that part isnt thier fault. I am pretty sure I have sleep apnea, and when you add that together with chronic migraines and severe anxiety issues, it leads to issues with getting a good nights sleep. I snore, I grind my teeth, I sleep walk, I sleep talk, and I almost always have a plugged nose during bed time. So normally, even when I get my nessecary eight hours of sleep, I am still wake up tired in the morning. I've become rather dependent on caffiene over the years as well as processed foods chocked full of sugars and so on. So when I decided to get healthier and cut out ninety percent of my pop intake, and replaced it with water and black tea, and changed my food diet to include home made foods mostly from scratch, my body decided it hated me. That hatred led to me being even more drastically tired on a regular basis, and requiring more means to try to stay awake while avoiding caffiene and processed foods.
So when the kids are in town for the summer, and daddy is riding the struggle bus every night for sleep, he becomes the bus driver and seems to be the only one on the bus at all. It is amazing how my children can go for days with only a few hours of sleep a night and seem perfectly fine. I wish I knew what caused this ability so I could bottle it up and sell it. I would be the richest man in the world if I could sell people the energy of children under the age of ten. It is un-fricken-beleivable how much energy they have with no real rest. They that as you get older you need less and less sleep until a certain point and then you need more and more. Well at the rate my children are going, they are going to hit a point of needing no sleep at all before they even come close to the normal mark of needing more sleep again.
I wanted to make sure I started this post with that sentence so that no one thinks anything less. With that being said, I really really really wish my children would sleep. Well, more I wish they would choose the days I work as days they are willing to sleep all night, rather than my days off. I mean, come on, its not that hard, daddy gets all his hours in three days at work, and if he doesn't pick up overtime, that equals four day weekends every week. That means three nights out of seven, daddy needs to get to bed on time, and get up early. However it always seems to be those three nights that the children dont want to go to bed, have bad dreams and come join me in bed, wake up crying and needing put back to bed, or just dont feel like sleeping so they stay up late and wake up early.
The biggest problem would be with me however. I don't sleep well even when the kids aren't here, that part isnt thier fault. I am pretty sure I have sleep apnea, and when you add that together with chronic migraines and severe anxiety issues, it leads to issues with getting a good nights sleep. I snore, I grind my teeth, I sleep walk, I sleep talk, and I almost always have a plugged nose during bed time. So normally, even when I get my nessecary eight hours of sleep, I am still wake up tired in the morning. I've become rather dependent on caffiene over the years as well as processed foods chocked full of sugars and so on. So when I decided to get healthier and cut out ninety percent of my pop intake, and replaced it with water and black tea, and changed my food diet to include home made foods mostly from scratch, my body decided it hated me. That hatred led to me being even more drastically tired on a regular basis, and requiring more means to try to stay awake while avoiding caffiene and processed foods.
So when the kids are in town for the summer, and daddy is riding the struggle bus every night for sleep, he becomes the bus driver and seems to be the only one on the bus at all. It is amazing how my children can go for days with only a few hours of sleep a night and seem perfectly fine. I wish I knew what caused this ability so I could bottle it up and sell it. I would be the richest man in the world if I could sell people the energy of children under the age of ten. It is un-fricken-beleivable how much energy they have with no real rest. They that as you get older you need less and less sleep until a certain point and then you need more and more. Well at the rate my children are going, they are going to hit a point of needing no sleep at all before they even come close to the normal mark of needing more sleep again.
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