Good morning, maybe.
I am very tired. Warning, rant ahead:
I like sleep, and I am a good sleeper nearly all the time. My kids, in fact, are pretty good sleepers - unless they are throwing up, they generally stay in bed asleep, even through colds and coughs and so forth. Up until this school year, when we put them to bed, they stayed in bed.
D is a very bad sleeper, if it's not on the couch. He gets stressed and tense and I don't know what. Plus, with his work, we really only sleep in the same room about 5/8 of the time - it's more than half, but barely.
So last night, D falls asleep on the couch whilst we were trying to catch up on CSI. No problem. I turn the show off and turn on the basketball game. He wakes up very grouchy, I offer to rewind CSI and start over, but he thinks he might fall asleep again.
At a little after 11:00, I told him (he woke up with a huge start) that I was going up. He was afraid of being too awake, so he stayed down. I don't know if he slept then or not. I fell sleep around 11:30. At 2:30, he woke me up, coming in and talking a lot to the dog
, then asked if he could read without bothering me. I said OK, half-asleep, but he decided not to, and went back downstairs. I felt a little bad, but did fall back to sleep after a bit.
Maybe an hour later, Woody came in with leg cramps. I got him back to bed, and noticed that there was no D.
When the alarm went off at 6:45, I reluctantly got up, having at this point had less than 7 hours of not-at-all-solid-sleep. D had wound up reading until he fell asleep in the guest room. Woody, when I went to wake him up, started just SCREAMING that "NO! I am NOT getting up, I am NOT going to school."
Fun.
I said that he had to. I keep asking if something is happening at school that makes him not want to go, and he says no, he's just tired - this is ongoing for several weeks. I am just frustrated because he does seem to love school - he comes home happy every day, full of stories, his teacher loves him, etc. And on weekends, of course, he gets up at 6:30 without issue, and usually after going to bed later.
Anyway, I feel bad, of course, that D's having this trouble, and Woody too, but I also feel very resentful, as, since no one was sick, I really could have slept fine and yet it didn't happen. Then if I complain about being tired, D acts like I am being crazy, as he's MUCH more tired. I'm sure he's more tired, but his is his own fault, you know?
So now I'm tired and cranky, and I'm sorry as it's
such a small problem in the grand scheme of things, but I needed to vent that out.
Hope everyone else is having a nice morning. I'll go into school in an hour and a half or so, but that's all I've got planned so far for the day.
Happy Friday!
Drat... That could have come in handy for me in June too
Who is planning it? When? Yadda...?
I entered that drawing well before it was posted here on the Focker thread. 
SD is getting ready to head out to the bus.
Sometimes when I'm awake at 3.00 in the morning, I want to cry because I'm so frustrated at being awake. I hope the rest of your day is better.
