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Welcome back to Finish The Sentence Friday Blog Hop (FTSF).  We give you a sentence and you finish it (however long or short you’d like).  Please feel free to link up and follow any or all of our hostesses, which are below.

And now for this week’s sentence to finish:  “I used to love...”
And the next sentence to finish:  “I wasn’t really myself when I…”

I used to love….

Sleep!!

Through my formative years, I loved sleep.  If I could have made a living from sleeping, I would have.

Sadly though all good things must come to an end and with two little kids 16 months apart, I stopped sleeping right actually during my first pregnancy.

I Had No Clue What Was in Store for Me Here!

I Had No Clue What Was in Store for Me Here!

I remember being told back when I was pregnant with Emma  to enjoy sleep while I could.

Seriously who could enjoy sleep so pregnant, huge belly and having to get up to pee all the time.

The dynamics are just not for allowing to sleep or enjoy it for that matter.

Then, I had Emma and from the first night she had her days and nights screwed up.

Oh and she had colic, too.

She is Sleeping Here, But Don't Let That Fool You!!

She is Sleeping Here, But Don’t Let That Fool You!!

So every night at around 11pm like clockwork she screamed into the wee hours of the night.

Conan and I became very good friends from this.  And my couch was where we would finally settle.  But sleep was not to happen those nights until very late and then she would be up again by 7 or 8 at the latest.  To say, I was exhausted and fried was the understatement of the year!

And when this died down, teething reared its ugly head.

And then came Lily. Even though she was a very good baby in comparison. I still had one night feeding for the first few months, plus Emma who was still teething would be up some nights.  Thank god for Kevin, who did help, but still sleep was a rare commodity

16 Months Later Came Lily!!

16 Months Later Came Lily!!

So you guess it more broken sleep and sleepless nights were endured.  And this lasted off and on for about 3 years in total.  This vicious cycle of someone always seeming to wake me.

However now that I can sleep, it is liking retraining my body.

Seriously, I still wake at least one time a night, because my body just got used to it, I suppose.

So miss sleeping late and not having a care in the world. Oh and hot dinners, but that is a story for another time.

So how about you, what did you used to love??

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About Janine

Janine is a published author of the books, The Mother of All Meltdowns and Only Trollops Shave Above the Knee. She has been featured on The Huffington Post, Mamapedia, Today Parenting Team and SheKnows. She also runs her own graphic design company at J9 Designs.

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  1. Billybuc says

    That's an easy one….I used to love alcohol waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much. 🙂 Have a great Friday Janine!

  2. findingninee says

    OMG I miss sleep like that. Only recently, my husband has been letting me sleep in on the weekends where it's actually worked. He was letting me sleep in about a year (maybe more) ago and honestly, I couldn't. I think it's some weird mom hormone.
    My recent post Forgotten loves

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know as much as I love my girls Kristi, I really do miss sleep. I was so the first to be able to sleep in when I was younger and lived for it, now not so much. I have to agree that it may very well be hormonal!!

  3. Sarah says

    I remember when I was in Target once with my infant daughter, and I must have looked terrible, because a woman told me, "It gets so much better once they sleep through the night." And it soooo does! Those early years truly make you understand why sleep deprivation is a form of torture!
    My recent post What a Renaissance Man Taught Me About Identity

    • Janine Huldie says

      Sarah, so true and I swear even though they sleep through the night, I now admittedly don't some nights. God hope I hope as they get older that will change for me and I will somehow revert back a bit to how I used to love to sleep. It is a nice dream, I suppose!!

  4. stephsprenger says

    I seriously have no idea how you did it, Janine. Colic sounds miserable. And also- your comment on my post made me laugh and also kind of want to cry. That is horrible!!! Poor you…
    My recent post Why It Sucks To Take Your Children Out In Public

    • Janine Huldie says

      Stephanie, I still honestly don't know how I did. I remembered being quite panicky when I first found out I was pregnant again so quickly. When the shock wore off, I just did what came naturally and god help me it did all work out for the most part. As for my comment on your blog, I seriously couldn't make that up if I tried and if it wasn't so crazy, I too probably would have cried, but again I was on auto pilot and just did what I had to in those both instances. And you are so right thank god for doggy bags, because that was the only way I ate ot those times!

  5. Ruchira says

    Sleep…I loved sleep too.

    Infact I prefer to sleep till 8am on Saturday's with a do not disturb sign near my bedside table 🙂

    Voted for ya, J9

    • Janine Huldie says

      So true Christina and I know as soon as the kids are sick all bets are really off in this area. My pleasure and commenting on your blog, too and hoping you are enjoying your weekend now!! 🙂

  7. lrconsiderer says

    I love naps, but I never loved going to bed or sleeping at night. I fear that once my job starts, this is something I'm going to have to start getting used to, and my exuberant 'stay up all night because I can' days will become a 'used to' love. Sleep is so overrated!
    My recent post 7 Quick Takes 42 x FTSF

  8. Karen says

    ah yes, sleep and I used to be good friends too… I could never sleep during pregnancy either Janine…I would need a pillow and blankets positioned all around me…darn prego pillows sucked.
    oh my the mixed up days/nights, the teething, sleep training…so glad it's all over…now I have other things to worry about, LOL
    My recent post I USED TO LOVE…

    • Janine Huldie says

      Karen, those pillows never worked for me either an being that I used to love sleeping on my stomach, I was screwed for the onset on this one. But after having issues with my back I have to sleep more on my back and/or side, so that also might be why I don't sleep as good. But you are right I have things that have taken sleeps place in the love department I suppose!!

    • Janine Huldie says

      Ughh, I have an almost 3 year old that now loves to not go to bed until almost 11 pm lately. So, I think we all know the feeling one way or the other!!

  12. Sara says

    I would pick sleep too. I love when people tell you to sleep while you can. Ha ha. When I was preggers I felt like I was up every hour peeing. I especially miss my lazy Sunday afternoons where Tommy would watch football and I would watch Lifetime movies. Now my house is pure chaos and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
    My recent post To Move Or Not To Move

    • Janine Huldie says

      Sara,, I hated that statement more then you know and try so hard when seeing a newly pregnant woman to remember that and not utter that same phrase. But yes I wouldn't trade the craziness now for anything!! 🙂

  13. Brigid O'Malley says

    Oh, Janine, I am sooooooo with you on the missing sleep (and hot meals) — I just try not to think about it, or I might cry. LOL. I love my Liam, but sometimes I just want some uninterrupted sleep and time to eat (while my food is still hot!).
    Have a great weekend! 🙂
    -Brigid
    My recent post Love: Then and Now

    • Janine Huldie says

      Thanks Brigid for sharing it isn't just me. I love them so much, but I am tired and hungry many times now. Someday we will get our sleep and hot meals again, if only!! And have a wonderful weekend, too 🙂

  14. tamaralikecamera says

    I definitely still love sleep – sometimes I get it and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night for no reason at all! I used to love…living in a city. All of that excitement and everything open 24/7. Now I love living in the country. I actually live in a city but it's a small city and we somehow found a house in a clearing in the woods, and there is nothing city-like about it. In fact, the darkness and the silence are almost unsettling late at night, which brings us back to sleep! I'd rather sleep in a city, I think.
    My recent post Ladies Only Blog Share Link Party: Back To School RULES!

    • Janine Huldie says

      Tamara, it is the same here. There are nights where I can sleep straight through and then others not so much. About two weeks ago I had 3 nights straight where I was awake at 4 am and tossing and turning for the rest of the night. No reason just couldn't sleep. I grew up in the city, too, but do like the suburbs. Not sure I can do rural or country, but the suburbs fit me nicely at this point in my life. Have a great weekend my friend!! 🙂

  15. notinjersey says

    we are finally able to sleep a bit over here, but there are nights when at least one kid wakes up (either the oldest or youngest usually!). also Dave wakes up to use the bathroom and I don't get a full night as I should. however I'm sleeping in the mornings till 8 and next week I have to get up by 7 for school!
    My recent post Mommy Camp Week 4

    • Janine Huldie says

      Dara, yes when my husband gets up to use the bathroom or coms to bed after me I usually wake, too. So you are right it isn't just the kids, but being a light sleeper I suppose now after training myself to hear the kids when they needed me as babies now I pretty much hear anything and everything!!

  16. NuggetOnABudget says

    Oh sleep. I think this is every mother's dream ~ to be able to sleep a peaceful, full night's sleep without any interruptions! Sofia didn't sleep through the night until I stopped nursing her…and of course by then, I was halfway through my pregnancy this time and was waking up to pee and to switch positions all night. I think we just get used to it! A good thing, because who knows when it goes back to normal ~ when the kids are in college? Lol.
    My recent post what's in my hospital bag.

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know college sounds about right Kera. And I know that feeling Emma was finally sleeping pretty much through the night and then I had Lily. Now she was a good baby, but still had to get up for her night feeding. But trust me it does get better, just not sure when it will be full night sleeping for us though!

  17. Chris @HyeThymeCafe says

    No kids, but I can totally related to the no sleep problem! Don't know why, but I've been that way since I was a kid. Sadly, my nights are getting shorter, and I'm seeing more and more sunrises before seeing the back of my eyelids these days! Hopefully you'll be able to re-set your inner clock and get back on a regular cycle. Although I suppose with little ones in the house, you pretty much always sleep with one eye and one ear open…just in case.
    My recent post Chewy Nutella Oatmeal Cookies

    • Janine Huldie says

      Chris, I am sorry you too have issues with sleeping and know what you mean about shorter nights for some reason and yes I am always sleeping with one ear listening and one open, too for my girls!!

    • Janine Huldie says

      Erica, I know, because we too have had a few of those bright shiny moments in our marriage too and it usually about sleep and being tired ironically!!

  21. Leah Davidson says

    I'll have to join in and say sleep. I still love it, I guess. Need more of it for sure. But, I now feel like there is always something that is more pressing, or more exciting than sleep. Until I get to sleep again and remember how much I love it!
    My recent post Happiest Times

  22. realhousewife says

    Oh man…Janine, I worked in a sleep lab for several years:). But the issues you had sound normal and there isn't anything one can do during such times. No magic pills to replace sleep!

    I have been trying to reverse my sleep schedule after being on nights so many years…I still wake up at 2:00 am and want to go to the cafeteria for lunch! Haha. It's the habits that are built into our circadian rhythm. Hard to change that cycle!

    • Janine Huldie says

      Kelly, I knew you would explain in scientific terms and thank you for that, but in any old language it just sucks not to get as much sleep as I once did (at least for me)!! Lol 🙂

  23. clark says

    sleep? (for nothing even remotely the same reason) I have found that I sleep less than I did at a prior time in life. When in high school college, I often could sleep well into the day (making up for that by staying up late into the night). Now… I can't remember that last time I slept (not counting being sick… when I get to the point of counting being sick as a noteworthy aspect of my life…please tell me to stop writing! lol) past 7:30am
    But I like early morning and, while I enjoy staying up late (when I can bridge the 'fall asleep at 8:30pm section of the evening), I have to make a deliberate effort to do so.

    Interesting how things change….
    My recent post “newspaper taxis appear on the shore, waiting to take you away’ the Wakefield Doctrine (while the album plays, the Sentence is Finished, this Friday)

    • Janine Huldie says

      I am so with you on this Clark and I think the latest I slept was 8 am in recent times and yes I can stay up a bit later past midnight, but still wake up around the same time, too!!

  24. pictimilitude says

    I used to love peanut butter and jelly sandwiches when I was a kid. Now, I can't STAND them, haha. I hope you have a great weekend. 🙂
    My recent post Ten Things of Thankful

    • Janine Huldie says

      Lol, I was just saying how when I was pregnant with Lily I love peanut butter and banana sandwiches. Now I can't stand to look at them either, lol!! Have a great weekend, too Cyndi!! 🙂

  25. Stephanie says

    Been there!!! If I ever thought Lily was a bad sleeper, I'll take everything back, she was a super-sleeper. Violet would wake up 5 to 6 times a night and wanted to nurse, for months, and it had to be me. I was working 40+ hour weeks and oftentimes simply wanted to cry fro exhaustion. Still not used to not getting enough sleep..
    My recent post Some Things Do Change

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know Stephanie even though they are pretty much sleeping through the night now, still not getting enough sleep here either as you could tell from this post. Maybe someday!!

  26. Lisa says

    AHHH, sleep. That is a depressing thing to think about. You just happened to have mentioned one of the more enraging memories I have during pregnancy which was people telling me to enjoy sleeping while I could. Who the hell was enjoying sleep while pregnant?! ……..(I actually just had to pull my hands off of the keyboard here because I felt myself about to rage all over your comments feed about this.)
    OK, now that my rude-pregnancy-comments rage has passed, I will also add that I just started reading a book that is having a dramatically positive effect on my sleep called "I Can Make You Sleep," by Paul McKenna. I am loving it so just thought I'd pass it on!:)
    My recent post My First Blog Hop!

  28. Dani Ryan says

    Bahahahaha! I know what you mean about sleep! I wish I had slept more when I was pregnant. I was NOT prepared for the kind of sleep deprivation I endured during those first 7 months. I didn't sleep more than 20 consecutive minutes the first 3.5 weeks (and I was in labor for 36 hours AND spent the 3rd night of my daughters life in the ER because she was jaundice, which meant I went a full 24 hours with NO sleep at all), and she also had her days and nights confused. I was up multiple times a night until 7 months, and then when I could sleep all night, I would wake up with sore boobs. Now? I stay up WAY too late blogging (like right now!) and I get up early to work out. So I am still very, very sleep deprived. 🙂
    My recent post 8 free (and easy!) weight loss tips that work for me

    • Janine Huldie says

      Dani, this is why I love you, because god yes even now when I could be and should be sleeping I am up and blogging. But yes to all of the above with how I didn't sleep for so many months because of colic and Emma having her days and nights screwed up, too. And then I decided to do it all over again only 16 short months later. I must have been crazy, lol!! But as someone else said to me in one of the previous comments, thank god they are cute!!!

  29. babygatesdown says

    I agree re: sleep. Oh how I miss it. My husband and I trade off weekend days so each of us gets one day a week where we can KIND OF sleep in – like MAYBE until 9:00. It's pretty heavenly – but NOTHING like being able to waste a morning away – or roll out of bed at 11:00 on a weekend. YES – I miss that!
    My recent post Raindrops on Roses and Whiskers on Kittens

    • Janine Huldie says

      The switching off sounds heavenly and if my body would allow it, I am sure my husband would comply. But damn I still can't seem to sleep past 8 am nowadays on weekends. Seriously do miss those days though that I too could have stayed in bed until 11 or later!!

  30. marykatbpcsc45 says

    What does it feel like to sleep? I have not been able to this week either. 🙂 Hope you get a good night of zzzz tonight.

  31. Christina DiPersia says

    I am currently going through the realization that sleep is a commodity that is long lost and won't be found for a very long time. I didn't sleep well most of my pregnancy and I only had one night where my daughter slept through the night in the 11+ weeks since I've given birth (and I still had to wake up 2x to pump since I was engorged). I look forward to when I get some more sleep regularly.

    • Janine Huldie says

      Christina, can totally relate and so sorry that you too have had a similar experience with sleep. Here is to hoping we all get better sleep real soon!

  34. Judy Haughton-James says

    I don't sleep too badly these days. I get up at least once but sometimes it takes a while to get back to sleep and all sorts of ideas keep racing through my mind and I am too tired to get up and write them down!:) I used to watch a lot of television programmes. I remember the days when my twin and I would stay up very late watching a variety of shows. These days I mainly watch the news, a few music shows and big sports events. I am usually in bed no later than 9 p.m. Oh how the times have changed. Such is life.
    My recent post Question Time

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know Judy times sure do change. Last night, I watched my neighbor across the street that I used to babysit for go out with his girlfriend to begin his night around 9 pm. Like you I am too tired by 9 pm to even think about just beginning the night anymore. Maybe another lifetime ago, but not now anymore!! Hope you have a great rest of your weekend now!! 🙂

  35. gigigirl says

    Sleep was always one of my favorites in my younger days. Now I enjoy sleeping less and having good morning time. Have to say, I don't miss too much and glad to have such a happy retirement. Of course, I wish those who are not with us on this planet any longer were here….them I miss! xxoo

    • Janine Huldie says

      Ihere you on those who are no longer with us. I try verymuch to be happy for what I have because of it, but will admit I still do miss sleep a bit for some reason. Thanks Aunt Gloria and xoxo!! 🙂

  36. cgacad says

    While I would rather have a crying baby, I am very grateful that I get to sleep in on weekends. Being able to wake up whenever I want, when I feel rested, must be one of the greatest joys in life.

    • Janine Huldie says

      I know Catherine how you feel and trust me I do miss sleep, I wouldn't trade my girls for the world (except maybe when they are screaming or whining, lol!!).

  38. Alma says

    I used to love sleep too!! I haven't gotten an uninterrupted night of sleep since Jan 2012. Pregnancy was toss n turn all night and my now one year old has refused to sleep through the night (ANY night) up until now lol. Followed you from the Mom's Monday Mingle. Have an awesome week ahead!
    My recent post Budget Sesame Street Birthday Party

    • Janine Huldie says

      Thanks for the follow Alma and will be checking out your blog in a bit, too. I know all about the lack of sleep and so sorry though it isn't just me and you, too!!

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