Really???

I have been a little stressed out the past few months with everything going on and learned that sometimes it is best to just go to sleep when I am tired.  Everything else can wait but nothing good comes from being tired.  I have plenty of stuff that needs to get done around the house before family comes on Friday but I was exhausted last night so I went to bed at 8.  Finally shut the tv off at 8:30, ended up talking on the phone for a bit around 9:30 but I am sure I was asleep by 10 at the very latest.  I know I was having a strange dream that had just led up to me finding a flat tire on my car when I woke up to Alexis screaming in her room.  Not the "I just woke up and want my mommy to help me get back to sleep" kind of scream, the kind that I thought maybe she had figured out how to climb out of her crib and was now laying injured on the floor.  I go into her room and she just keeps saying "down, down".  No rocking, no cuddling, just down.  But of course it is 2:30 in the morning so the house is still dark which seemed to freak her out.  Finally, I make her a glass of chocolate milk, get her pillow pet, Tinkerbell blankie and the gloworm and head to my bed.  She has never slept in bed with me so I don't really know what I was thinking but I figure it was worth a try.  For the next hour and a half, we watched videos of her on my phone, played peek-a-boo, and watched some Sprout.  Finally, I decided that I could at least get one more hour of sleep if I put her back in her room.  I cheated.  I got the portable dvd player, put in Mickey Mouse, set the player on her dresser, put her (and all her stuff) back into her crib and came back to bed.  After a few minutes of crying, she settled down.  I laid down and wanted to make sure the volume was up on my phone and IT DOESN'T FREAKING WORK!!!  I do not have a house phone, just the stupid cell phone (I hate TMobile!).  So I end up messing with that for a bit, can't get it to work and then realize that I don't have time to go to sleep anyway so I just need to get up and get ready for bed.  I check the monitor one more time (it has been about 30 min now) and Alexis is sound asleep.  Now I am ready for work but I can't start until 6am so I get to just hang out here, watching Alexis sleep until I need to wake her up to go to her dad's.  But at least I had time to blog, right? :)  Hopefully this day gets better quickly!