Sleep is for Sissies

So yesterday was the first day back to school for us. As much as I enjoyed having the kids home during the break, I was happy to send them back. Hayden hates being away from school for too long and will drive me crazy asking if he can go every single minute of every single day. LOL Not to mention that the girls were bored out of their minds and just itching to get back to see their friends.

The icing on the cake was that I was able to get back to my normal routine - grocery shopping and running errands by myself. I love my kids but taking them all to the store is not for the faint-hearted. Although, I will count my blessings that I'm not having take them to some place like Walmart or Target. At least the commissary doesn't have toys or video games or anything. Just boring ol' groceries, which often is bad enough when I get to the checkout and find out exactly how much they've sneaked in the cart when I wasn't looking.

The downside to them going back? Now I can't sleep in until whenever I want. No more staying up late reading doing something exciting. :) Not when my alarm starts annoying me at 5:30. (Which, btw, ask me sometime about yesterday morning when my alarm wouldn't stop buzzing even after I hit snooze. It was not pleasant). So, anyway, I went to bed last night at a semi-decent hour (11 rather than 2 or 3 like every other night since the break started) crossing my fingers that I would be able to go to sleep. No such luck. I tossed and turned forever, and this is what started going through my head...

Ugh, I need to go to sleep! I'm going to be exhausted tomorrow.....ok I need to stop thinking about sleep and think about something relaxing....the beach is relaxing....oh I miss the beach....I need to email Hayden's teacher about our meeting this month...and I need to reply to those emails that I got today...I still haven't bought my bedside lamp yet....ohhh!! I'm going to Ikea next week....I finally get my desk - yay....I really need to look at bookshelves....I need to check the tracking info on those books I ordered....maybe I should write this down....this would make an interesting blog...(*this is where I started thinking about what the blog would say*)....oh this is ridiculous! I have got to go to sleep....I hope we have some coffee, I think I'm going to need it tomorrow....

Needless to say, at 2 am I finally fell asleep. And when my alarm went off three and half hours later I almost threw it across the room and refused to get up. Thankfully we had coffee and I made a huge pot. It's going to be a long day.