Mother of the Year

Today is a school holiday. I kept the boys up late last night hoping they would get to see Tonester before bed last night, but he got delayed at work so we had a late night for naught. I fell asleep on the couch and wound up with a "couch headache" (a headache I always seem to experience the morning after falling asleep on the couch - anyone else get those??) and had to down some Motrin at 3AM. When that didn't do the trick, I took 2 Tylenol PM at 4:30AM with hopes I would sleep off the headache and wake up feeling refreshed and the kids would sleep in for the holiday.

Not to self. Never take Tylenol PM unless I have a full 8 hours of sleep time left.

Domino woke up at 6:15 this morning. A full half hour earlier than when I have to beg, plead, bribe and threaten him to get up on a normal school day. Tonester was heading out the door for work and sent Domino back to bed. Where he stayed for about 7 minutes.

He came back to my coma bed and wanted to snuggle with me. Here's the thing - I absolutely HATE snuggling with my kids in my bed. I just want to sleep! I don't want anyone talking to me or at me, patting my back, reciting NASCAR factoids, or rolling back and forth excessively while I'm trying to sleep. I certainly don't want the TV on with cartoons, or worse - the Speed channel. After the third warning I left Domino alone in my bed and crawled into his.

In the process of stomping down the hallway to a new sleep sanctuary I woke up Rascal. The same kid who screams at me every morning that he "just wants to sleep forever!!" was now awake and ready to start his day. At 6:46 AM.

I put the TV on for them in the living room, threw a box of graham crackers and a couple of Danimals at them and said "do not come and get me unless someone is bleeding heavily" and I went back to bed. For 2 full hours. I could have slept more but I managed to drag my groggy butt out of bed and make a pot of coffee.

Now, you'd think I'd be ready to start my day at that point, right? Oh no. Very wrong. I did what I swore I wouldn't do...

... I succumbed and hooked up the Playstation. They get to play it once a month and they weren't due until tomorrow. But I let them play anyway. That was about 7 hours ago - and they're still playing! And I just recently showered and got out of my pjs.

Mother of the Year!