One of the things I was told before you were born was “Sleep when your baby sleeps.” Evidently it’s like the most passed around piece of advice for new parents, and I didn’t listen to it. We struggled through your first four weeks on minimal sleep, and then I vowed I’d respect myself more and sleep more when I could.
I have a terrible problem of staying up too late. I’m night owl, I always have been. You’re four, you go to bed between 8 and 9pm every night, and after you are asleep, I still have at LEAST four hours left in my day because I just can’t bring myself to give in to sleep until 1am or later. And lately it’s been later, and after a couple of weeks riding on six hours of sleep I think it’s finally caught up with me, because I am just miserably tired today.
Make sure you sleep when you can. Take naps. I should actually say “Remind me that I said to take naps,” because even now when I am exhausted I always look at those who nap regularly to be weak people. It’s only 18 hours, get through the day weaklings! But maybe that is wrong – of course it’s wrong to judge people honey, don’t be like your parents or grandparents, don’t judge.
Time to put down the books and get to bed earlier? I don’t know. We shall see. But you, missy. Sleep well and often – it will help you keep a good attitude, if nothing else.