Can someone please tell me how kids under the age of 4 have more energy naturally than I have if I drank 10 Mt. Dews? My daughter is just under 2 years old and there are days when I am dragging because I'm so tired and she is literally running laps in our house. Take today for instance. It is New Year's Day and this is a day I'd like to sleep in. And by "sleep in" I mean sleep past 7:30am -- crazy talk in my world. I might as well ask for flying ponies, or better yet, for my legs to look like Fergie's so I could rock mini skirts everywhere I went (okay, so as fantastic as that last wish would be, it would be a smidge impractical to dress like a hoochie mama while actually being someone's mama).
To give you a little background, last night on New Year's Eve we had some friends over and my little Bean went to bed at her regular time at 8:15ish. She slept great until about 11:45pm when she probably heard all the commotion of us getting ready to start the countdown to midnight. She woke up furious, so I brought her downstairs to the party and she was happy to ring in 2010 with Mommy, Daddy and our friends. After everyone left, she wanted to continue the party and stayed awake until 1am. My husband, M, and I hoped she'd be tired and sleep late in the morning. WRONG!
She was bright eyed and bushy tailed (what a ridiculous expression -- you know who probably came up with that? A MORNING PERSON... grrrr...) at 6am. Fabulous. She was not only awake, but happy, refreshed and FULL of energy. How does that happen? I'm NOT a morning person by any stretch of the imagination, but today it was more that that. I was simply exhausted. Trying to be excited when she brings me a book to read or a toy to play with can be difficult when I'm exhausted, but it's just part of motherhood. Luckily today she ran out of energy about 9am and went down for a morning nap (which she no longer takes), so we happily obliged her. I definitely took a fantastic 2-hour nap while she did the same.
Naps are extremely underrated in my opinion. I would take a power nap every day if I could, but of course that's rarely possible. The Bean only takes one nap a day in the afternoon (today excluded because of her long night), so her naptime is typically my time to get things done. From cleaning up the tornado she has left behind, to household chores, to actual writing for work. Did I mention that I still work from home part time as a writer for the company I used to work for full time before becoming a SAHM (stay-at-home mom)? It's a great gig and I love my work, but it means I have a lot to do while she naps, which doesn't leave me any time to nap.
If I could find a way to bottle the energy of little kids, I'd be a ka-biz-nillionaire (yeah, it's a real word). Red Bull has got nothing on the energy of a kid first thing in the morning. Maybe tomorrow I could just take a moment to watch her with wonder and be in awe of her ability to greet the day with such sweet, pure joy. Maybe I could do that... if I wasn't so tired.
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