For all you moms out there do you have a hard time going to bed?

Same here! I can't wait for my kids to go to bed at night. My husband complains about me staying up so late. But I have to remind him that it is the only time I have to myself. After a long day of Mommy, Mommy, Mommy. Quiet time is the first thing on my mind. Lucky for me I am not a one to require a lot of sleep. I never have been, so it helps. My husband is normally in bed by 7pm during the week because he has to get up at 3am. Then the kids are in bed by 8pm. So after that I will stay up sometimes until 1am watching tv, on the computer, reading, doing word searches, or talking to my mother on the phone. But I feel the same as you come morning. I'm tired and not ready to get up. Yet the kids wake up with buddles of energy. Sometimes I wish I could just have an 1/8 of thier energy in the mornings. Instead I have to have about 2 cups of coffee to wake me up.

I used to get up early in the morning and try and have a half hour of queit time before my kids got up. However,that started to back fire becauase they would sense I was up and then it was deafeating the purpose and I was getting very upset because then my day with the kids was starting early then I wanted it too. So now I am back to staying up pretty late because I enjoy that time by myself. If I go to bed too early I just wind up thinking of all the things I could be doing and things I have to do.

Im guilty of that! I always end up late at night or shall I say early in the morning like 1 am just surfing the net while my children are sleeping. Its good to have some quiet time to do your things without any distructions from your children but its hard to wake up early in the morning to get ready for work. I will feel tired and exhausted in the afternoon because of the lack of sleep, so now I just limit myself for 2 hrs surfing the net on weekdays but I can stay late on weekends.

I do this almost every night. I finally get the kids in bed and the hubby's asleep (he goes to bed early because he has to wake up really early) and the house is quiet. SO I start a project that I could never do with two children running around, and find myself up really late. Then when the oldest wakes me up at 6:00 a.m. I'm angry with myself because I can barely lift my eyelids! (:

Exactly what i would say. When the house is quiet, i relish every minute of it. It's these precious minutes that i get to actually get online, watch tv, read a book/magazine/newspaper, etc. And like you, i sleep later than i should and feel drained in the morning. One thing i found that works for me, was to pop my vitamins for my breakfast (of course on top of the sandwich, etc..). Vitamin B Complex especially help me boost my energy levels while vitamin C and high quality protein helps with the repair of the cells because they act as anti-oxidants. To more quiet times for moms *toast* - Lyn

I was once like that. But now, I prefer to go straight to bed as I need the rest. I've been feeling very tired and friends noticed my tired look. So, I've decided to get as much rest as possible so that I have a fresh mind and outlook the next day..

I often find myself going through my day in a fog because I was up all night getting work and homework done in the peace & quiet of my hubs & kid being alseep. I so often want to kick myself when I'm sitting in class not getting it because I got about 2 hours sleep before having to get up and start all over, but what is a girl to do? If I didn't work at night, I'd get nothing done at all.

I'm the same exact way and have been for the past 7 years, full-time job or not. After the girls go to sleep I stay up and do some mylotting but mostly I'm playing my guitar and singing, and quite loud too as my kids sleep right through this. It's the only quiet time I have and I hate being interrupted when I'm practicing new stuff. Sometimes I stay up until 2:00am and I've been up much later. I'm not working now because my husband is in Iraq so this extra quiet time is essential to my sanity, but even when I was working I would stay up way too late goofing off and relaxing and then was hecka tired the next day.

Yes, I am up late right now. My hubby and kids are in bed. I love to have my free time and usually end up staying up until midnight when my hubby goes to bed around 9:30pm.

A few years back mother was finding a hard getting to sleep at night and its really getting in her nerves because she has to wake up early in the morning to prepare food and things for the sotre. I told her to consult her doctor and finally she foun out that she is b complex defeciency. While on medication her sleeping pattern have improved and the b complex tablets has helped a lot.

Thats me all the time. Except my son goes to bed when my husband and I do, so we all go to bed at the same time. But a good portion of the time im just so wide awake, even though its allready late, that i cant get any sleep. Sometimes i get up and take a shower or get back on the computer. Anything to feel... i dont know like im getting something done, without over taxing myelf. I try to not do anything physical that might wake me back up a bit. lol.

As soon as my kids are asleep I say my prayers and get to sleep in no time. That's my favorite time of the day. I know my youngest son would ask for a bottle of milk at midnight so I don't have time to waste but get myself to bed before he wakes up again. Sometimes I cannot even relate to what my sister and brother are talking about a television show because I never watch tv before going to bed.

yes I hate it . I know that I should go to bed but cant sleep and then im awake in bed for ever. But when the kids are up it seem like im drained.

I do this all the time. It is just so quiet and peaceful that I either will get on the computer or stay up reading a book because it is just so nice to have so alone/down time.

Once the girls are in bed I can't seem to go to bed because I want to stay up and do stuff. I usually fall asleep on the couch and my hubby has to wake me up to tell me to go to bed. Still haven't figured out that logic, let's wake the sleeping pregnant Mommy that doesn't get alot of sleep anyway and tell her to go to the bedroom and spend another 30 minutes trying to fall back asleep. I think that it is some twisted form of torture lol.

I would so have to agree with you on this. With the kids getting a bit older I am also finding they are staying awake a lot longer making it harder to find the time!

im so with you on that one. I need that time in the evening. To be able to do soemthing without interuption is a great feeling. thats why i always put my boys to bed by 8 so i can have my time even though they get up super early

I do that all the time. It's amazing. Instead of doing the right thing and going to bed early, it's like I don't want my free time to end. And that doesn't happen very often. Most nights my kids fight me at bed time and I don't even get to fall asleep until very late. But on the nights that I can successfully get them down, I find myself up until the wee hours of the night catching up with friends, email, relaxation, etc. So I know exactly how you feel.

I'm really bad about doing this. I'll end up staying up later either getting extra cleaning done or surfing the internet. Mylot has become a major addiction for me lately and I find myself on here responding to forums late at night. But I'll also have my nights when it hits me how tired I am and I crash right after I put my daughter to bed. It's like my body just finally shuts off and can't take anymore lol.

im like that too..my son is already sleeping at the end of the day and i just lie down in the bed doing nothing...i also dont know why...