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Jan. 2, 2006
Sleep, or lack thereof
Somehow I have gotten to where I stay up so late and sleep so late. How did this happen? This needs to change. Clay wakes up SO so early for work. He was waking up at 4 AM and now he tends to get up at 3 so he can have some computer time, and just general quiet time in the house before he leaves. I am so ashamed that there are times that I am going to bed when he is waking up. He kisses me goodnight as we pass by each other. I miss going to bed with him. There was a time I used to get up at 4 when he did and make his coffee, put his lunch in his car, start it to make it warm and toasty then go back to bed for an hour. Sometimes I would even stay up and drink tea and read. I truly feel that Proverbs says that waking early is a virtue. I mean here it is 2AM and I am still up. ARGH. And Clay doesn't have to work tomorrow and he'll be up early and I'll miss a third of my day with him because I'll be asleep. I have SO many things that need to change in my life but this sleep thing has got to be somewhere higher up on my priority list. I think it's affecting my health, my relationship with Clay and it's affecting my children. Their sleep schedule is all screwey. Frankie wakes before I do, my mom feeds him breakfast and then he watches tv in my bedroom while Adric, Cassie and I sleep. Cassie and Adric sleep until 10!! I am just ashamed to say it outloud. I have always had this dream of waking before the children, having some quiet time with the Lord and a cup of tea, waking them up with a smile and having them come out to breakfast going and Mom's open Bible on the table. I am going to form a plan.. Half an hour a week. Adric didn't fall asleep until midnight. Cassie fell asleep only maybe half an hour before. I'm not sure at what time I should have them all lay down. I'm not sure if they should still take naps or not. I keep trying to have Adric not take a nap so he will go to bed early but he always always passes out on the living room floor by 6. So that plan isn't working. I am thinking of laying them down at 10:00 with books and letting them read for 1/2 hour then lights out and see if I can have a week of them solidly being asleep by 11. Jeez they are 2 and 4. When life was simple in TN they all three went to bed at 8, sometimes 7:30. Ha! So this week will be the week of 11 o'clock. So by mid February I should get them back to somewhere around a 8:30 bedtime. I am still a tad unsure what time I will be trying to go to bed and get up. I do need to be able to have time every night or sometime during the day (though I like night better) to work on my scrapbooking designs. I need to be able to keep up that small business if we are ever going to be able to move back home. Hmmm.. If they are in bed by 8:30, asleep by 8:30 I should be able to work until 10:30, have half an hour of quiet time with the Lord and be asleep at 11. I could easily get up at 7 if I was in bed by 11. Okay so I have a plan. Tomorrow I will be in bed at midnight and read for half an hour. 12:30 am bedtime for tomorrow. Ramblin Rose at it again.
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