Take Your Own Advice!!

Sometimes I think I should take my own advice a little better. I sometimes hear myself talking to someone and think, "Wow! That's a good piece of advice I just gave her!" and then I will be in a similar situation, and completely forget what I said and do the exact opposite.



My biggest plan for the deployment is to make sure that the kids don't get too tired. That is when they get really sad (although I think sometimes it is just a ploy to get to sleep in my bed--and they HOG the whole thing!!) Anyway--I figure if I can make sure they get enough sleep, and that they go to bed BEFORE they are really tired, they won't get too sad. It has totally been working, and I have patted myself on the back a few times about how genius that was to think it up before he even left!



"Great idea!" I have told myself. "You are such a veteran army wife. You are getting so good at coping strategies! (and at using phrases like 'coping strategies!')" Is that some crazy punctuation or what??



So, over the last few days, I've been a little sadder than I was the first few weeks. I've thought that I was just getting to the "reality" of it or that I was stressed about all the things I need to get wrapped up for the end of the school year. Well, guess what! I'm TIRED!!!



I really like sleep. A lot. I don't get a ton of it, because I don't sleep very soundly at night. Even when S is home, I like to go to bed early (9:30 is the middle of the night for me!) and I'd love it if I could sleep late in the morning. Today I realized I have been staying up MUCH TOO LATE (approximately 10:30). We went to bed last night at 8:45--all of us. And, I felt so much better today.



So, what have we learned? Yes, I was correct in thinking that not going to bed early makes you sleepy. And, no, I have not yet learned to take my own advice.



And on that note, I must go to bed. It is 10:21.