Sleep is so overrated.

I wonder if I will ever sleep through the night again?  I keep thinking "tonight will be the night" but it hasn't happened in a very long time.  With the girls it was the pregnancies, the co-sleeping (due to sheer laziness on my part not because I thought they would be damaged if I put them in their crib),  nursing every 2 hours, waking in the middle of the night and needing to sleep in bed with Mom and Dad.  That went on for years.  Now it's the dogs.  We have a king sized bed but it amazes me how much room 2 Chesapeakes need.  I get a sliver on the outside of one side and Tim sleeps where he can find a spot.  Lately we deal with fun stuff like Sadie's thrown up, Sadie or Beau have pooped, Beau needs to pee, they want to play, etc.  Last night I went to bed at 10 and set the alarm for 4:30 so I could be at the gym.  I am awakened at 1:44 am to Tim saying, "Sadie threw up."  I say, "OK".  He repeats, "Sadie threw up."  I say, "Do I need to clean it up?"  He says he already did it so I roll back over.  He repeats AGAIN, "Sadie threw up."  I am thinking to myself, "I added some dog food to her food today since she seemed really hungry and her poop looked good."  So I managed to mumble something like that out loud.  He says, "It was just chicken and rice."  I am thinking, "I changed to brown rice and probably fed her too much" but I didn't want to start a conversation for fear I would be awake for hours.  I said, "I understand Sadie threw up.  Good night."  and managed to fall back asleep after running every reason through my brain that Sadie could have thrown up 7 hours after I fed her.  (I should note that I am NOT nice when woken up in the middle of the night.  Period!)  At 4:00 am sharp, I hear whining at the gate at our door.  It's Sonny, the 10 yr old resident dog who NEVER needs to go out in the middle of the night.   He did today.  All 3 dogs stampeded down the stairs and went out.  By then, it was 4:10 and not even worth trying to get everyone situated back upstairs for 20 minutes when my alarm would go off.  I stayed up, went to the gym at 4:55, worked out for 1 1/2 hours and came home to a quiet house.  Everyone else was still sleeping, even the dogs. 

Off to refill my coffee cup!  Have a great day :)

Martha