When you’re too tired to sleep…

Posted on December 5, 2007

Just when we thought we were out of the woods with the “sleeping through the night” battle, Chloe decided that 4:00 am was a good time to sing, talk to her stuffed animals, and play. It has now been two weeks! I don’t get up with her, I don’t go into her room, I don’t feel like we are encouraging this in ANY WAY. And yet, every morning like clock work, she wakes up at 4:00am. And unfortunately, our walls are thin enough where I hear everything! And then it takes me 30 minutes or more to fall back to sleep.

Two nights ago, we had a crazy wind storm, and she was up, literally, every two hours. I would get to the point where I would start to fall asleep, and she would start talking and calling out to me. I only slept about 4 hours that night. And I can tell that I am getting old, because when I was in college, four hours would not be a problem. In fact, I would be up all night studying with bags of popcorn and a 2 liter of mountain dew, and still be able to function perfectly the next day. Now, It was hard for me to even form complete thoughts, let alone even think about writing a 10 page paper.

On top of all of this, she lulled me into a false sense of security. Before daylight savings, Chloe was sleeping until 8:00 every morning. I was in HEAVEN. After daylight savings, she started getting up at 6:00am again. Sometimes I am lucky and she’ll wait until 6:30, but most mornings she starts calling for me around 6:00 am. I HATE daylight savings!

Anyway, I am writing this post because I am sitting on my couch, watching crap tv, too tired to go through all of the work of a bedtime routine. By this I mean, taking out contacts, brushing teeth, putting on pjs. At this moment in time, it seems easier to sit here on the sofa watching crap tv, then climb those stairs…sigh. Project Runway is more entertaining then sleeping anyway, right?