We’re on holiday (me, husband, kids, dog). My parents have come to join us for a few nights and my dad, bless him, uses the toilet every few hours. This has resulted in our dog crying for 30 mins every time he hears my Dad moving about. This has kept me awake (and no doubt them too).
God knows how Dad copes with waking so frequently in the night but that’s not the point of my post really, because this is a selfish post about me.
Tomorrow I need to somehow get through the day on 3 hours of sleep and stay happy and positive. I have form form for sleeping terribly on holiday which builds up to me feeling very anxious and irritable and generally gagging to go home. I don’t think I’ve ever really enjoyed holidays due to this, thinking back even to before having kids, sleeping on holiday was always a huge issue.
This year I’ve come armed with nytol but didn’t take it tonight as was so tired I knew I’d fall asleep easily, with I did! But I just didn’t anticipate being woken and kept awake all night by the bloody dog!!
I have found some earplugs (gave some to parents and will of course all go out in the morning to let them lie in) but I fear it is too late for me. My daughter will be awake in a few hours. Typically she and my husband have slept all the way through the noise!
So a bit of anxiety is kicking in now. Trying to stay logical and tell myself lack of sleep won’t kill me, that this doesn’t need to ruin my holiday etc. But it just doesn’t feel like a holiday. Because it’s basically a sleep deprivation challenge.
My parents are staying tomorrow night too, so more than likely our dog will cry all night again.
Maybe I should ask them not to stay a second night? (Maybe they’ll volunteer that anyway)
I know this isn’t exactly a real problem but I feel like crying because we get one holiday a year and sta always so bloody dominated by my terrible sleeping.
I sleep really well at home by the way. I don’t have a sleep problem. But I don’t function at all well on little/no sleep.