Beanie is having a sleepover at my parent's house. I cannot tell you how thrilled I am that she is old enough to do so. I need a night every couple of months to just "reset".
I have been very overwhelmed the past month.
I am trying to accomplish things but that creates more work sometimes. I pretty much cannot get anything done with Beanie at home, so weekdays are filled with work + cleaning, groceries, running errands, etc. Everything needs to be crammed into 8 hrs, not to mention cooking dinner in the evening, watering plants and making sure I have Mommy-Beanie play time. By the weekend I am exhausted, and as you SMC's know, weekends are not really rest, its just doing even more stuff.
Basically, I am very sleep deprived. Beanie sleeps through the night, but we co-sleep, which means constantly being kicked by her, or her talking in her sleep, or being restless. My fitbit shows me up 13-21 times a night and I barely get 7 hours sleep if that. It not restful at all and after a few weeks of it, I find myself getting more irritable.
Therefore, my parent's offer of having Beanie over for a sleepover was welcomed with much relief. Beanie had a ton of fun and I got to clean the house from top to bottom (yeah, no rest for the weary), and later treated myself to take-out and had a frozen margarita while enjoying my clean and tidy house.
Now I plan to watch a movie and sleep, in the middle of my bed, without fear of getting a knee in my kidney :-)
I bet this little interlude will do wonders for me. The house seems so quiet without the constant chatter, and I do miss my little monkey, but sometimes one just needs time to oneself to reset!
I have PTO this week off from work since Beanie is off from school. We will do some fun things.
That sounds awesome. I think I would want more than one of those nights every two months. Sounds like you made good use of it!
ReplyDeleteHope your sleep was heavenly!
ReplyDeleteI never had any idea how hard it could be to get things done with kids around before having kids. lol