Once the kids are asleep...

I know I’m not the only mom who does this.... Exhaustion is real ALL day and you can’t wait to crawl in bed & go to sleep! Once it gets dark outside you’re counting down for bedtime. it’s just that once the kids are sound asleep, you lay in bed and almost instantly the exhaustion slips away. Not in a sense that you’re no longer tired... but that you now have peace and quiet to do ANYTHING you want! If you want to surf your phone for hours, you can! If you want to take a long bath, you can! Or even indulge in some ice cream without having to share... So instead of getting the much needed sleep you truly want/deserve you stay awake. Just so you can do the things that are little harder to do with kids all day. 🥂 cheers to the nights we stay awake to feel like an individual. Not just “maa-maa” and “wife” 🍻 cheers to the nights we stay awake just so we can enjoy something that makes us who we are. .....we will regret it in the morning tho. 🙃

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Love this! Definitely true!

Yasssss and ditto on so many of these comments! Nighttime is my time - guilt free because everyone is taken care of and happy and dreaming... and I couldn’t possibly do any chores, that would wake them up!

hahaha this is *so* true!

Yes! This.

Omg I LOVE this! Our little guy is on a set schedule to be in bed by 7:30 now and sheeesh it’s made a huge difference! However, he does wake up fully energized with the spring roosters! 😂

Here I am again at 3am...clean house,lit candle,hours of time wasted in YouTube. Darn these people...of course I need 15 minutes of meal ideas for my toddler and who doesn't want to know 11 facts that will surprise me about sharks.

🙋🏻‍♀️this is so me! Every morning when the kids are bouncing in my bed while I’m still sleeping (because it is only 7am), I tell myself that I will go to bed early that night. And when said night rolls around and not a creature is stirring, I suddenly have the energy of somebody that drank 12 cups of coffee while on meth. I will watch something on “On Demand,” to try to catch up on shows I’ve missed. At the same time I’m folding laundry (I am a lifelong member of FFL-forever folding laundry) and picking up toys. Once the commercial comes on, I get up to load the dishwasher and then put the laundry in the dryer. When the next commercial comes back on, I’m putting away whatever laundry I have folded so far, and do a bunch of other chores until I look up and see that it’s already 5am! I try to get as much sleep as I can and when I finally doze off, I feel the bed bouncing and hear my sons squealing in delight and again I tell myself that I will go to bed earlier that night! I call it, “mom mode!” Hahahha

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Thanks for posting this! It’s nice knowing I’m not the only one up at 2 in the am doing too many things when I should be catching up on some zzz’s 😴😴😴

I feel yaaa

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Still awake. Hubby works 3rd so only time I have to myself to watch and eat what I want

Always always alwaysssss!! Lol I’m always madddd tired during the day. Once bed time comes around, it’s like I get a fresh wind like the kids do, I end up staying up until 11-12 sometimes later just relaxing or catching up on things I need to catch up on. Lol

I am starting to find I like this myself! I am a new Mom and find myself sowing to go to bed but when it’s finally quite in the house so am wide awake! I’m either cruising Facebook or playing games or cleaning... I regret it the next day😆

So true I am now the cleaning fairy at night when everyone is sleeping and I fix my fiance breakfast so he can just grab and go in the morning after his shower (some time if I get to in between feedings)

Yesss!!! Last night I kept looking at the time and once it was 830pm I became a drill Sargent and got my kids to brush their teeth and hop into bed. Then I served myself some ice cream, finished a show on Netflix, went on my phone and when I could barely see straight, went to bed lol

Sooo sad but true I find myself finally having a clear head and free hands and then next thing you know I’ll be exhausted but can’t sleep 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

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