Insomnia You Suck!!

I am a pure definition of what they call an insomniac. I always have a horrible time sleeping and spend most of my night tossing and turning and wanting to knock myself out. It's like when I go to bed my mind just doesn't want to stop, I blame this in part because of my ADHD. I wish that my brain had it's own on/off switch so at night when I lay down i just flip it off and pass right out, but that never going to happen so for now im just dealing with it.

I know that i can take sleeping pills that would help but I have the fear of taking them and then not waking up till past noon and I have a daughter to take care of so that's not going to work. I've tried drinking warm milk, sleepy time tea, and even taking shots of Nyquil to knock me out but just nothing works. When I finally do manage to sleep it usually not till about 3am when my husband is getting up and ready for work, so when the baby wake up bright and early at 7am I'm running off practically no sleep at all. I have started to have a really hot and steamy affair with my coffee pot in the mornings now, it not they way I would like things to be but hey it makes me somewhat functional. Thankfully all I have to do in the mornings after my daughter wakes up is, Change her diaper, give her cereal, giver her her sippy with milk, and put Disney Jr. and she is good to go. This way I can doze off on the couch a bit while she is distracted. Some mornings I take her into my room and she drinks her milk and watching Disney Jr. on my tv while Mommy catches up on some Z's, less trouble for her to get into and plus it offers some snuggle time with my Munchkin.

Soda has been my friend as well, I have a no Soda before 11am rule but lately with my insomnia so bad i have kinda thrown that rule out the window.  Soda just gives me that extra kick I don't get with my morning coffee. I literally praying that one day someone just drops an espresso machine on my door step, i could really use it right now.  I do have my good and bad days, I do actually get a full 8 hours sleep but that's only if I had a really busy day and then I pass right out. Right now I am kicking myself for taking a nap earlier today because now I really cant sleep. Right now where I am at its about 1am so I think i'm going to try and lay down. Talk you all later!


Love
Christiania