We started the night preps really early yesterday, Sunday. Ate dinner early, gave Myka a bath early, read books and we were in bed by 10pm. Still an hour late than scheduled but was still earlier than usual.
I was already feeling sleepy but my dear daughter was still wide awake. She kept on picking her lip and I tell her no, taking off her hands from her lips. I would tell her to hug me and I would hold her hands to prevent her from picking her lips. I would close my eyes and then hear a “pulling sound” and catch her pulling her lips again. I finally spanked her, she cried and I felt bad. Then when I checked, it was already 11:30pm! I got upset and anxious.
She finally fell asleep (I just let her pick her lip because that’s how she puts herself to sleep – but I really just feel bad seeing her bleeding lips/blood-dried lips the next morning) but then now I was wide awake!
I did all I can to fall asleep including:
- breathing techniques
- reading an actual book (7 Habits of Highly Effective Families)
- listening to Sleep stories in my Calm app
- breathing techniques again
- drinking water (and peeing again.. and again)
At 4am, I finally decided to text my bosses that I might be late for work the next morning. And then somehow, I fell asleep.
I woke up at 8am, pondered on going to the office or just working from home… then just finally decided on driving to work.
Now I feel like I have a dull headache and my brain is just trying to shut down. 😦
What to do after a sleepless night?
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