A good nights rest... What the hell is that?

It took a lot for me to not get up last night and write this out... As you may have read yesterday in the teething baby post, my daughter wakes up in the night still.. Magically, I am automatically the one who gets up to deal with her. We're talking getting formula, changing her diaper or attempting to stand and rock half awake to try to get her to snooze.. It's more than that sadly that keeps me from having a good nights sleep... When I get ready for bed I have a few ritual things I do before I allow myself to drift off to dreamland... Assuming the baby is already in bed, I check on her to make sure her legs are covered up (she sleeps with a blanket that is tucked under the mattress and only makes up to her waist.. calm down.), if I haven't already gotten a shower, I get one. After the shower  I get dressed and brush my teeth, plug in my phone after turning off the ringer and checking my alarm, I turn on the fan (yeah, I'm one of those... Even if it's freezing..), check on the baby again, move the pillows I won't be using (because I have ABOUT.. 9 pillows total on my bed..), climb into bed, adjust my pillows, pull up the blanket and close my eyes. If I lay there and am not totally ready to zonk out I'll either turn on the TV quietly, have some time with my husband or play on my phone. Once I go to sleep it's usually anywhere between 10 and 11:30ish.. Aside from the baby getting up (which is usually anywhere between 1 and 4am), I have other things that wake me up... Having to go to the bathroom, a crappy dream, my husband talking in his sleep, my husband getting in MY space on my side of the bed (we're talking more than cuddling.. more like smothering.. thankfully, doesn't happen that often), my husband snoring, having to get a drink, checking on the baby to make sure she hasn't rolled to her belly (most nights she does.. it still scares me..), having to reposition the blanket my husband has taken over, having to adjust the pillows that just aren't working right, trying to figure out if the sound I just heard was in my head or really the house, a child waking me (yes it's ALWAYS ME!) because of a bad dream, a child waking me because they don't feel good or I wake up because of one of those things and I end up THINKING about something that floods my thoughts no matter how hard I try to get rid of it. It's a vicious cycle that usually wins.. Before I know it, it's 7am and my alarm is going off or about to go off so I have to get up and get my kids ready for school. As if by some crazy coincidence (every freaking day...), by the time they are ready to walk out the door, my baby decides it's time for HER to get up... It's hard to be dragging when I look at the smiling face but my god...I don't drink coffee and I don't do energy drinks... Blah.. I kind of wish I had taken more naps while I was pregnant and was in the house by myself through the day... Think of the bits of energy I could have stored... I know it doesn't work that way but STILL! I would love a solid week of full nights sleep... No interruptions whatsoever... No baby stuff.. no dreams from anyone.. no snoring or creepy sounds or needing to pee in the middle of the night at all... Ahhhh.... It would be wonderful.. WONDERFUL! It's too bad that I probably won't know that feeling for a few years still... :( A good nights rest is just another thing for me to dream about. So when you lay your pretty little head down to go to sleep tonight, hopefully you can be thankful that you can lay there knowing you don't have to worry about this kind of stuff interrupting your slumber... And for those of you with similar bed time stories to mine... I am sorry.. I am so so sorry!!! Good luck tonight everyone! Here's hoping for 2 times awake or less and not MORE! :) Good night! -Super Mom