Plans. Yay.

So school has started for the teen and I’m quite determined to get myself into some sort of routine.  There has been next to no scheduled sleep or eat or cleaning times since Taylor started working nights and it’s making me both crazy and vaguely depressed all the time.  I’m a creature of habit and I’ve really been thrown off by this.

With the kid back in school and Taylor pretty set in his own night schedule and day sleep pattern, it’s now time for me to figure out how this is going to work for me.

I need to get back to doing my yoga. Desperately.

I need to sleep at regular times and for the right amount of hours. This three hours one day, twelve the next thing isn’t working so well for me.

I need time to clean the house and the peace and quiet to do so with no one under my feet – which I’ll have, now that the kid is gone and Taylor is sleeping.

I need to enjoy a couple of hours of quiet and darkness at night when Taylor has left and Colin is sleeping because those are some of my favorite times but I need to stop staying up until four or five a.m.  It’s just not good for me.

And so tonight I’m going to take an Ambien and go to bed early. I’m going to get up with the kid tomorrow and stay up because I’ll have had enough sleep and I won’t be crabby when Taylor comes home and once he goes to sleep I can then work on rearranging my life to a schedule that works for us all and leaves me feeling good.

There. Plans. Yay.