Zombie Mom Wednesdays

With a late work night on Tuesday night, Wednesday's have become livingly referred to as "Zombie Mom Wednesday" around our house. So, if I am walking around more zombie like, check your calendar, it is more than likely a Wednesday.

(Do you really all have to wake up the minute the sun is awake? Sigh.)

If I have gotten 5 hours of sleep on a Tuesday night, it is a good week. Needless to say, our Wednesday mornings are Rough (with a capital R!). I am not sure if there is ever a zombie mom at your house but our zombie mom isn't a morning person to begin with. She sets the alarm clock for the very last minute possible to get the kids to school on-time. She is usually in her pajamas with a hat on to hide the crazy bedhead and has not even brushed her teeth. The kids clothes are usually a little more wrinkled and a little more mismatched. It isn't important if the shoes are on the wrong feet or if the homework is in their backpacks. What is important is that zombie mom is here to give them a kiss and send them off to school (hopefully we make it by that last bell!).

(Just one more minute, I am sure it will make all the difference! Zzzzzzzzzz!)

What is the zombie mom to do with the one little adorable guy that doesn't have school? Maintain survival mode, that's what! Survival mode usually entails milk and breakfast cuddling with the zombie mom with Netflix (sometime in my bed on the kindle) because who am I kidding, I cannot live on 5 hours of sleep! No one benefits, believe me! With Curious George and Phineas & Ferb's help I am sure to get another hour or so of zombie mom sleep time (totally different than normal sleep because it is half sleeping, but in zombie mom state, I'll take it) .

For all of you who have crazy work schedules, have their most productive hours after the kids are in bed, have kids waking them up all night long, enjoy the peace and quiet at night or are just night owls in general for that matter, let's not feel so guilty about needing the help of Curious George and Phineas & Ferb. They come highly recommended. Now, if only they could make breakfast too.

I Don't Care

The Boy is finally, FINALLY feeling better.

And even better, he is finally sleeping.
He has to be exhausted from the lack of sleep he's had since he's been sick. I swear the medicine they gave him that was supposed to knock him out, had the opposite affect.

He has slept in the last two days.

He slept until 9 today (unheard of for this guy who likes to wake up at 6:45). And I let him. Who cares that preschool starts at 9 and he was completely late. Who cares that I let him take an extra 10 minutes to eat his breakfast. Who cares that we read a book, had cuddles and then got him ready for preschool.

I don't. It was worth every minute. And our entire day will be better because of it.

Wide Awake

Have you ever really, really needed sleep yet find yourself wide awake. Hi! I am seriously bright eyed and bushy tailed with a huge day ahead of me tomorrow full of yard sale-ing and a family reunion photo shoot hopefully followed by a visit to the FSA (Families Supporting Adoption) picnic. It is officially 1:15 in the a.m. and we are all meeting at 5:30 for yard sale set up. What am I doing here wide awake? I don't know. I may as well go through my basement one more time and tag a few more things, right :-) Seriously I am nuts. I had a psycho day today and thought I'd be more than glad to get home to my bed. Yet, all I really want to do it go wake The Gent up and chat his ears off. Believe me, that wouldn't be a welcome thing after the day he had at work today. Sigh. I guess I'll find myself something more productive to do.

Wide Eyed

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Man here I am. Wide awake. I won't even tell you what time it is. I haven't been sleeping very good lately. I lay in bed wide awake with a million gazillion things running through my head. I won't even begin to go into all of that. I wish I could sleep. I'd be a better mom tomorrow if I could. But here I am. I got up thinking I could be productive yet I'm not accomplishing a thing. :-(

Down and Out

I have I think the worst cold that I have had in years. I feel so crappy. So bad in fact that The Gent has stayed home from work the last two days. Poor Gent has been just taking care of the kids (well, and me for that matter) while I have been trying to get some sleep. I'm still not feeling much better though. My head is so stuffed up and the box of tissues and I have become connected at the hip. I don't go anywhere without him. I'm either sneezing or coughing or have this runny, stuffy nose. I have the achy all over feeling and really just want to sleep all day but can't when I'm... well.... sneezing, coughing and have this runny nose. Argh. Hope to be feeling better soon.

Nap. . .No Nap!

For the past few months I have basically given up on trying to get The Boy to take a nap. He is our little energizer bunny and he can go, go, go on very little sleep. I cut out the nap completely hoping that it would make bedtime a bit easier. Yet he still fights and fights going to sleep. Regardless of what time he goes to bed, he is wide awake at 7:00 AM. Which is actuality fabulous seeing that he was getting up at 6 or 6:30 every day. So, I'll take the 7 and sometimes even 7:30 these days.

There are days when we can tell that he is just so tired yet he won't stop long enough to realize it. Once he slows down and stops for even just a minute or two he is out cold. So, we end up having late, late naps which are definitely not helping out our night time routine. But the worst part about is it that when he takes a late nap he wakes up freaking out. It takes me almost half an hour to calm him down and console him. Why? All I can figure is that the nap is so late that he is really almost ready for bed yet its too early to really sleep through the night. Who knows. But I came across this picture as I was editing a few and realized that he really just has to run out of energy and then he will crash. Anywhere, anytime. Here he is sitting on the couch, snack cup in hand, leaning up against The Gent as The Gent watches a basketball game. Out cold.The other day he and I were on the webcam with my sister and The Boy's cousin and best buddy, D and The Boy was climbing all over laughing and playing on the webcam. As soon as we were finished, he climbed behind me in the chair as he always does. He loves to be a monkey on your back! About two minutes later I realized how very still he was. He wasn't moving an inch. He had totally fallen asleep on my back here at the computer. I wish my camera would have been close by. It would have been great to get a picture.

So, after months of no nap, he has started telling me that we need to lay down together for a nap. Today, after I laid The Girl down for her nap he grabbed my hand and said, "Come on, we can lay in our bed." I said, "You mean your bed"? "No, mommy's bed and we can take a nap together!" he said. The fact that he won't sleep in his own bed is an entirely different post. But for today he is taking a nap. He wanted to lay down. Maybe he's figured out that falling asleep just anywhere isn't as cozy. But for sure, I think he knows that a nap is sort of nice sometimes even for a little energizer bunny.