Downtime....

Last night, I put the girls to bed early...7:20 to be exact. Lexi has been deciding to wake up between 5:45 and 6 a.m. the last few days for whatever reason and Haylee decided to wake me up on Wednesday morning at 2:45 a.m. to tell me she could not sleep, and so her and I laid in bed and talked from 2:45 until almost 4 a.m. when I could not stay awake any longer and put her back in her own bed, so last night everyone was beat including myself. The girls went down without a hitch, not even a word out of Haylee so I knew she was tired. I could not believe that I was actually going to have some "me" time for once. Well, I turned on the TV and watched the last 20 minutes of Deal or No Deal and then started flipping through the channels. I decided to watch Supernanny for a few minutes and got frustrated with how the parents were treating/abusing their kids, so I decided to turn the TV off so I didn't get anymore mad. I sat there for a few minutes and looked at the clock. I could not believe it was only 8:25....what to do...what to do..... This is very unusual for me as I always seem to have something to do, so I decided to go to bed. YES, I was in my bed and sleeping before 8:45 rolled around. I could not believe it. I heard the phone ring at one point and then remember Myk waking me up to ask me a question and I went right back to sleep. I woke up enough to feel him crawl in to bed at God knows what time and then I was woke up at 2:45 a.m. by little one telling me that the train woke her up. I was smart this time......I crawled out of bed, scooped her up in my arms, and put her back in bed with all her covers and told her the train would be gone in a few minutes and then she could go right back to sleep. She said, "thanks mom!" and that is the last I heard out of her until 6:45 this morning. Once again, I crawled back in to my warm bed and went right back to sleep until 5:15 this morning when the alarm was going off. I cannot believe right now how much energy I feel like I have and that I actually don't feel tired for once. Maybe going to bed at 8:30 at night is not such a bad thing after all.