I’m a mom. I do nights sometimes. Usually it’s because I have a sick kiddo. Not tonight.

I haven’t had coffee since Miss Munchkin was a month or so and that was over two years ago. On that day, I had a DECAF coffee in the morning and she was still buzzing at 2am the next morning. I swore off the stuff. She was still nursing when I got pregnant with Bubster so I decided to not even bother having coffee during pregnancy only to have to come off of it a few months later.

Buster is now 7-1/2 months. Over the past month or two, I’ve started having iced tea from Starbucks every few days. No problems.

Today, we had to make the long drive home from Hubby’s business trip. It’s nominally a 6 hour trip if you go straight through, more like 7-1/2 with stops, but we took 9 hours with our two small children.

While I lay tossing and turning at 11:30pm, I got to thinking about what I had to drink today…

Midafternoon: Venti Iced Tea Lemonade with black tea

Dinner: Large Iced Tea at McD’s

Late evening (9pm): 3 cups of regular black tea

Given that I really haven’t had any caffeine for the past two years, it’s NO WONDER I can’t sleep.

So it’s now 3:43 and I’m still up. The upshot is I have done a couple loads of laundry and put a nice dent in my filing pile. The serious downside is my children will be awake and raring to go in just a couple of hours.

My eyes are just starting to get tired, but my body, well… it’s still going.

I think I’ll go finish cleaning. I’m really going to need a nap today.

So last week, I posted a to do list at 10:03am and was going to come back at 11:03am with an update. Didn’t happen. I can’t even remember what all went on, but right as I was getting started my husband called and needed me to run and do something so off I went. And then Tuesday ended up being extremely busy with Munchkin’s therapies, and then on Wednesday I found out that my hubby had a business trip this week so the end of the week ended up being crazy for that… and then THIS past week we were on the business trip with hubby…

So needless to say, I got everything on my list done, just not as quickly as I wanted to, and definitely with not enough time to post about it. Oh well. Such is life as a busy mom!

I am going to post a poll in the side bar. Go vote if you have a mind to!

Welcome to Maidin’ Monday. This is where all of us Maids who need kicks in the butlers (because we lack butlers to do everything for us) and there need to be “maid” to do it. LOL.

Participation is easy. Make a list of what you want to get done in the next hour or two (be specific) note the time, then get off your computer and go do the list. Come back at appointed time and report on how you did.

Time: 10:03

1. Sort and start laundry running

2. Put away the clean dishes

3. Clean the hall bathroom

I’ll report back at 11:03.

Ready set go.