Sleeping.... or the lack there of

I love to sleep. It's basically my favorite hobby.... after riding and playing with the doggies. I am a professional napper and have been known to nap for 4 or 5 hours at a time.

But lately sleep has been laughing in my face. I am always tired. I hear this is a common 1st trimester problem. Between being sick and the effort your body is making to grow a tiny human, well let's just say it's exhausting.

I've been taking a nap almost every day. I sleep like the dead. But by 9 or 10pm I'm so tired again and can't wait to go back to sleep! Only, I can't sleep! I fall asleep then sleep lightly and wake frequently all through the night.

Roader, our old lab who sleeps in our room, itches all night (we've switched to grain free food but it's taking forever to get rid of his allergies.....) and then I can hear wild animals outside or the neighbor pull in from his job at 11:30 pm. I have to get up and pee at least once in the middle of the night if not 2 or 3 times. And now quite frequently it's to do other things in the bathroom.

What I want to know is how you can go from being stopped up for days on end, drinking teas and taking fiber pills daily to no avail to having the trots like BAM. How does my body decide to go from one to the other in the space of hours?

So now I'm at work, and I should be working. But I'm so tired. I ate my Subway and my cookie and I feel like I should have gotten a footlong because I'm still so freaking hungry! And I really just want to lay my head down on the desk and nap.

But I know I'll get home and nap, or hell, maybe I won't. But either way, by the time I turn off Netflix and shut my book at 11pm I'll still be wide awake, talking to Roader and letting my imagination run wild about everything. Because that's what happens when you lay awake in the dark wishing you could sleep.