MaeLyn's Musings

What do you think about when you're lying in bed trying to fall asleep? This past week, I've had trouble falling asleep, and frequently wake up in the middle of the night and have difficulty getting back to sleep, so I've had a lot of time to lie in bed and let my mind wander. Here are some of the things I tend to think about when I'm lying awake: Things that happened that day. Conversations I'd had, and things I might have said differently. Projects I want to work on. Books I've read. Blogs I want to write. Poems and other things I have memorized, such as " Jabberwocky ", " The Walrus and the Carpenter ", " The Listeners ", " The Road Not Taken ",  The Articles of Faith  etc. The elements of the periodic table - like counting sheep (1. Hydrogen, 2. Helium, 3. Lithium...) Dreams I've had in the past that I can remember. Noises - like rain falling on the roof, Peter's snoring, the clock ticking, my own br...

The idea for this drawing came while I was lying in bed last night waiting to fall asleep. You'd think that getting up at 5:30am, walking over three miles, plus traipsing all over Hannah's high school to meet her teachers and not napping during the day would help me be tired enough to go to sleep at night, but apparently not.

There is nothing like the adrenaline rush of waking up 40 minutes late to get a person moving in the morning. Especially when that means I have only 20 minutes to get three kids dressed, fed and packed up to leave for school. Steven has been sick the last few days. His upper back and neck have been bothering him for a week and a half. It feels like he has been miserable forever. Yesterday he came home from work early and spent the evening reading in bed. Last night he kept making noises in his sleep: something half way between a grunt and a groan. Anyway, it was keeping me awake so I went to sleep on the living room couch. I kept waking up out there too, because one of the cats decided to come lay on me and purr and give himself a bath, noisily licking himself until I pushed him off. I wasn't laying in a position where I could see the clock, but suddenly I opened my eyes and realized it was light already. Suddenly I jumped off the couch and looked at the clock - 7:10, the time we...