Tishia Lee

Oh my do I ever feel refreshed and for once wide awake with no foggy brain! Hmmm ok so all you people that say sleep is a necessity, I guess I have to bow down and say you are right.

My body has been sleep deprived for years so it just seems like no big deal for me when I’m just laying down to go to bed at 4am or a little after and actually I’m usually going to bed around 2am, this 4am stuff has been over the past couple weeks. I’m used to running on a couple hours of sleep a night.

But after last night I have to say that I now plan on being in bed by 11pm every night (that’s even an hour ahead of what I ‘planned’ on doing in the past). Go ahead and laugh cause I laughed too when I sat here this morning and realized how different I feel after sleeping last night.

I was in bed by 9:20pm last night! Isn’t that bizarre? I couldn’t believe that I was crawling into bed so early. I’ve been under the weather lately (I feel a lot better than I did last week but I’m still not feeling 100% myself) and I’m sure lack of rest/sleep hasn’t helped. It all finally caught up with me yesterday and by 8:45pm I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. I was finishing up a client project and as soon as I was done and had it emailed to her I was closing things down for the night.

I can’t say that I slept peacefully all night long and I actually woke up at 2:20am and was awake until a few minutes after 3 (at least that’s the last time I remember looking at the clock) but I still got way more sleep than normal. I feel like a different person today. I woke up feeling refreshed and ‘alive’ for once. I think I even had a smile on my face as I crawled out of bed - not a normal thing for me in the morning! LOL

It’s not even 7am yet and I’ve already completed 2 things off my to do list for the day! At this rate I might actually be able to follow the business hours I set way back when I first started working from home 7am-4pm That would be nice!

mister internet! Please don’t leave me again, especially anytime soon! Ok I’m a dork, but hey I’ll be the first to admit it

It started storming last night, well early this morning and it was no surprise to me that I lost internet, TV and my phone (my phone is also through my cable company as well). It was late anyways so I needed to go to bed so maybe that was my cue it was time to hit the sack!

I had just fallen asleep when suddenly Caleb was crawling into bed with me. I thought he’d just fall back asleep - yeah right. For whatever reason he couldn’t sleep (poor kid is only 9 and already taking after me with the poor sleeping habits!) and tossed and turned and tossed and turned. Normally it wouldn’t bother me because that’s all I normally do but for once I was actually exhausted, tired and needed/wanted sleep! Every time I would start to doze off Caleb would say “mom” and start talking to me. UGH. When I want him to talk to me he doesn’t want to but when I want to sleep & he should be sleeping he wanted to talk. Kids. LOL. The last time I looked at the clock it was 4:41am I heard the slightest snore coming from Caleb and I was relieved that he had finally fallen back asleep. It didn’t take much for me to fall asleep either but the next thing I know the alarm clock was blaring in my ear. I remember hitting snooze, or so I thought I hit snooze but I didn’t wake up until a couple minutes after 8am and guess what time Caleb is supposed to be at school by? Yup, 8am!

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If you remember my post last week, I Am Not Crazy! The Today Show Proves I’m Not! you know that I was referring to a couple named Melissa & Ryan that appeared on The Today Show for the Race to the Altar segment. If you didn’t read last week’s post I recommend you go read it (you’ll find the link above, the I am not crazy…) but a bit of info as to why I wrote about Melissa & Ryan…

It’s because they met the same way that Seth and I did - he was deployed in Iraq when Melissa was introduced to him, just like how I was introduced to Seth. And now that I’ve read more about them, I’m learning that there’s a lot more in common than just the fact that Seth and I were introduced the same way they were. It’s all pretty cool and I love the fact that Melissa grew up in Michigan. It’s funny how there are so many similarities.

The reason for today’s post is because I’d like to ask all of you to cast a vote for Melissa and Ryan

What are you voting for? Read below to find out.

Five finalist couples will compete in a series of fun, competitive challenges and it will be up to TODAY viewers to vote for the winning couple. The lucky couples will duke it out for the grand prize — the chance to win the hearts of viewers across the country and tie the knot on America’s #1 morning show. Following tradition, TODAY viewers will plan the winning finalists’ wedding by voting on TODAYShow.com for the couple’s rings, the wedding gown, the tux, the attendants’ attire, the cake, and the honeymoon. The winning couple’s nuptials will then be swiftly planned by viewers for a June 25th wedding event live on TODAY.

I would really LOVE to see Melissa and Ryan win so please cast your vote! It’s a quick process. Simply go to this link and cast your vote for Melissa & Ryan! I’m not sure if you can vote daily or if it’s a weekly thing. I’ll keep you posted and let you know the next time you can vote

I couldn’t help but play along in this contest. Actually it wasn’t even the fact that it was a contest that made me want to play along, it was just because I’ve learned so much since becoming a mom and wanted to share it

What I’ve learned since I became a Mom:

This could seriously turn into a book but I won’t bore you all to death so I’ll keep it short and sweet, or at least I’ll try to

I was 23 when I had Caleb, not super young but a lot younger than I planned on having a child. At 23 I was pretty selfish, life was all about me. I liked to party all night, sleep all day and do what I wanted when I wanted. So I guess the first thing I learned was that life wasn’t all about me anymore. Suddenly I had this precious bundle of joy (that I wasn’t thinking was so precious when he woke up screaming at 2am, 3am, etc and expected me to be awake enough to function to feed him and change him cause Lord knows his dad certainly wouldn’t crawl out of bed to do it!) that was relying on me to provide for him. That was kind of scary.

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I’ve never done a blog party before so this is going to be fun and I’m looking forward to meeting the other moms taking part in the party too. You can head on over here to find out all the details if you would like to participate. The first part of playing along is posting an introduction so here you go, my introduction.

Who am I?

Well let’s see…I’m a single mom with 1 child, a boy (Caleb and he is 9) who is my pride & joy. I consider myself to have a wonderful sense of humor, I try to see the lighter side of life & make the best of everything. I’m full of random thoughts, I laugh at things that happened yesterday, I like to smile, I love to giggle, I like to act silly and goofy and just have fun and enjoy life.

I’m also a work at home mom. I’ve been working from home full time as a Virtual Assistant since Jan 2006. I love blogging and have been doing it for a couple years now but this is the first blog party I’ve ever participated in!

What else can I tell you about myself?

I’m a complete neat freak and love cleaning! Yes I said love! I have a couple pet peeves that drive me bonkers and I get laughed at because they are such silly things - bread crumbs in my butter and how toilet paper is put on the holder.

I’m a proud Army girlfriend to Seth who is deployed in Iraq right now and I’m so blessed to have him in my life.

Some random things about me:

I’m a NASCAR fan (go Dale Jr, Tony Stewart & Jeff Gordon!), I love baseball (Go Tigers, Sox & Yankees), I watch football even though I don’t understand it, I like Hockey (go Red Wings), I recently became addicted to Guitar Hero III, I love to dance even though I suck at it, I love my iPod, I love music, I love reading, I love writing, I like road trips, I love camping & the smell of camp fire, I like four wheelers, I like mudding, I want to have more kids, I love my crazy family & friends, I started playing softball again just a couple weeks ago after 8 years of not playing!, I love taking walks, I like thunderstorms if the thunder isn’t too loud, I love Adam Sandler movies, I love country music, I’m a reality TV junkie, I like Bud Light, I love wearing baseball caps and before my list gets 10 pages long I’ll end with saying that I love the friendships I’ve built online over the couple years I’ve been working from home.

There ya have it - me in a nutshell.