I turned thirty four last week. Thirty four. I don't feel old and I'm not one of those anti-aging people. So far every year I have lived has been better than the last and I'm not about to wish for anything other than a longer and continuously healthy life.
But some days I wonder, I am how old again? I mean, I was just thinking it should be time for The Late Show to come on and I looked over at the clock. Is it really only 8:03? I am completely exhausted! I can't believe it is only eight pm!
When did my body start to betray me like this? I mean, I never was a night owl to begin with. My husband and his best friend used to tease me when I was pregnant that I would head off to bed at 6pm, which I did. But can you blame me? I was pregnant after all!
Now that we have kids I don't have the luxury of coming home and heading off to bed if I have had a bone-tiring day. I have to get dinner on the table, baths, and bedtime stories. After that I have to get the dishwasher unloaded from the night before, loaded again and started, the diaper bag packed for the next day, and some nights I need to do laundry or tidy up the house. Oh yeah- and I always have to have time to blog or read blogs. (A girl's gotta have her priorities!)
Consequently that means that some nights after I do my chores and sit down for a quick surf on the internet it turns into 10 or 11pm before I realize the night has disappeared and the sunrise is coming faster than I am prepared for.
Now I understand why even as we got older my parents always insisted that we hit the sack no later than 8:30. It wasn't completely about us needing ten hours of sleep at night as much as it was probably that they just needed the down time before they went to bed themselves.
So I must say, tonight I am going to skip catching up on blogs. I am going to forgo posting on my other blog. I am going to pass on Facebooking and I am going to head to bed. I might not go to sleep (depending on what is stored up on Tivo) but at least I will be in the right place in case my body does decide to win the sleep fight.
And maybe tomorrow when I wake up I will feel much younger than I do tonight.
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