Lately I have found that I'm falling asleep earlier at night, often right after the news at 10. Our Old Ladies (Bootser and Whisper) have developed a habit of awakening us around 4:00 in the morning for their breakfast. We manage to fend them off until around 5:00 or, which is the time Rick normally awakens for work throughout the week. I get up with them on weekends and while they're having breakfast, I make a cup of coffee and bring it back to the computer where I post here for an hour or so. Then we start our day.
Since the Old Ladies have started to get me up so early now, I'm really having trouble staying awake at night. I am definitely sleep-deprived. Rick says that he's going to give me the gift of sleep.....he's going to pay for me to spend a night at a local motel and then I won't have to get up until I feel like it (or until the motel's check-out time, whichever comes first).