I've been having major sleep problems.......I'm out of work for the summer and have got myself in a awful cycle. I stay up late 2:00 am or later watching TV, crocheting, washing dishes. I have my husband shut off the computer when he goes to bed so I don't go near that ! I started painting my kitchen on Sat. can you guess what I've been doing at 2:00am ?

I like being alone, I like how quiet it is late at night. Sometime I go outside and sit on my porch I like listening to the night.

I'm sleeping way to late in the morning. By the time I get up, feed my cats (who are not happy with me) make coffee, get the kids going, I've already wasted much of the day. At 2:00pm I'm not dressed and I've spent way to much time on line. The snacking all day is getting to me ! I'm not grouchy, tired, depressed, just bored and stuck in a bad cycle. I don't need any advice (which I get from my mom) I need to go back to work. I thought I had it all covered this year, I found a job that fits in my life during my lay off. I was to be an art teacher but that fell through, not enough kids signed up so they didn't need me.

You'd think a mom of 2 who has the whole day to spend with them and do all the house work, have hours and days to do all the projects she wanted to get done around the house would not be bored. It's not the lack of things to due it's a lack of routine that's getting me. The lack of the routine I do 10 months out of the year...Just when I get my new non employed rountine in a good place, it's time to back to my other job. Which leaves the house a mess, no food on the selves, going to bed at 6:30pm,this last a few weeks (well the house never recovers from me going back to work it stays messy... :rolleyes: that's another story)

This is when I feel the most like I'm not normal. I don't know anyone who reacts like this to having your routine switched around. Not being able to fall asleep and messing up your day........

fasttalkingmom - strength to you. I am alone most of the year with Pierrette being a teacher and the kids all off at school. I work from home and the cycles are pretty stable through the winter. The summer is another matter. All my structure disappears and I ususally fall apart and long for September when I'll be back on track.

This year I'm trying to manufacture some structure but not have not been overly successful. It took me two weeks to get back to work after the kids and Mum came home. Sheesh!

Now I seem to be closer to winning on a number of fronts. The next is getting up early. In the summer I'd like to get up with the sun but whoa.. maybe that's a bit ambitous.
ian