10 Reasons Why My Plan To Go To Bed Early Fails

It's been a long few weeks for me.  I've had a number of responsibilities all cross paths and it's been tiring.  Exhausting even.  At the end of the day, all I really want to do is go to sleep.  But for some reason, my head never seems to hit the pillow until at least 11pm.  And as I lay there drifting off to sleep, I tell myself "tomorrow will be different".  But it's not.  I get drawn into the same traps every night.  So I started thinking: why do I keep failing at this whole 'going to bed early' thing?  Here are just a few reasons I came up with:

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It's OK to Want (& Take) A Break from Your Kids

This post originally appeared on Muddy Little Toes where I was previously a co-contributor.

After my daughter was born, I remember thinking, "How could anyone ever get tired of being with their kids?"  I know what you might be thinking: "That chick was seriously sleep deprived if that's what was going through her mind."  Yes.  I was extremely sleep deprived.  But I also remember feeling so amazed by all the little things I saw my daughter learning and how she seemed to grow overnight.  However, I also remember the days when I felt like I couldn't take another moment of being mom to my beautiful, screaming, daughter.  My husband would come home from work and I'd hand him our baby and shut myself in the bathroom for a half hour just to get a little alone time.

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