I'd Rather be Falling Back

I have issues. Lots. I know you are thinking, "and this is news?" and I know it isn't but today (in the interest of time) I just want to focus on one: my inability to get to bed at a decent hour. It really is terrible. I work all day and then either work again after work or come home to kids and dinner and chores and all that. I should be tired. I AM tired. But once the kids are in bed I sit down on the couch and watch whatever mindless t.v. that I have available and then before I know it, the clock looks like this:

Way too late, right? I know it and every night around 10 I think, "I should go to bed." And every night around 11:30 I finally motivate myself to start heading for bed. But then I have to check on the kids, brush my teeth and do all of the other important things that are necessary for me to do before I can fall asleep. Like review my calendar for the next 13 weeks. Sometimes, I decide that it is a good time for a bath. When I finally get into bed, I turn on the t.v. to lull me to sleep, which usually works.

Now I know that I go to bed way too late. I am reminded of this every morning when my alarm goes off. I tell myself, as I stumble into the shower after hitting the snooze 7 times, that tonight I will go to bed earlier. And I've tried. But that's even worse! I end up tossing and turning and staying awake even later! Or worse yet, I do fall asleep, but then someone calls. Because they all know they can call me late because I never go to sleep before 11:30. I have decided that I am just a night person and I have discovered that no matter what time I go to sleep, I am never going to be a morning person. This is why I live for nap time on the weekends. I am so thankful that my kids still sleep for 2 and a half hours each day. This whole Spring Ahead thing is going to make me grumpy for a couple of days because the last thing I am interested in giving up is an hour of sleep. But I'll get over it and will be back into my routine by Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest. Call me!