get some zzzz's people

so, my few days off from work for my 'staycation' haven't exactly been as relaxing as hoped. instead, it gave me a few days to pretty much try to fit in everything on my to do list...so, i'm pretty much sleepy all day yesterday-like fall asleep during general hospital sleepy-yea, it happened-i decide around 6 i don't care, i'm going to bed-can't keep my eyes open another second...bathe kid, feed kid, put kid to sleep, debate with husband, visit friend, watch glee, fast forward and it's 10:30 and i'm in bed wide awake...are we like our infants that if you get too overtired, you actually can't sleep?

so, i'm laying there, pondering this article i just read about why parents hate parenting-to sum it up-the older you are, the worse it is cause you're more stuck in your ways; the more kids you have, the more miserable you are; and it's worse for middle to upper class because you put so much pressure on yourself to do everything and compare ourselves-we somehow spend more time with our kids than our previous generation and still feel like it's not enough-don't totally get that considereing there were a lot more stay at home parents then, but whatever-it was a statistic and i believe it because statistics are infallible:) anyway, i choose which ones to believe after using my statistics minor to find all the holes in them...i choose this one cause i like to think there is one thing we do better than those before us...

back to laying in bed-so i'm laying there with my temporary insomnia which is annoying if you've ever had the pleasurable experience-never did till pregnancy-used to sleep like the dead-anyway, i notice all the lights on in my room-there's a light on the cable box, a light on the tv, a streetlight coming through the window, a light on the air conditioner, a light on the air conditioner plug?, and a light on the baby monitor-yea, my room's dark, but not so much...it's like the moon is shining right on me...what have we come to, that we now require all these lights when our electronics aren't even on-we are a technological nation, and it's disrupting my sleep! i remember hearing eons ago that even one light can disrupt a good night's sleep...it's no wonder we're stressed parenting, lack of sleep from parenting plus lack of sleep from the constant light-lack of sleep causes stress which causes weight gain which causes depression which causes lack of sleep-it's a vicious cycle!! so, since it's always easier to fix one thing at a time-i'm taking my first step to fix sleep-no caffeine after noon and unplugging everything that's not on-might as well help the environment while getting some zzzz's!