I'm very tired this morning and slept in. I'm trying to get up the energy for a walk before it gets a million degrees outside. It's already super humid. It's humid here most of the time, and the weather channel shows a high pollen count too. Lovely. My period started which doesn't help the fatigue, and I can't take NSAIDs any more, just Tyelnol, which doesn't help much. If my allergies get unbearable, I'll have to take a Claritin or something. I just have seasonal allergies, but they are annoying enough.

My daughter had insomnia AGAIN and woke up at 2:30 AM and wasn't able to go back to sleep. Luckily, I gave her a rule that if she gets insomnia, she is to set a timer & read or play for 30 minutes, then try to sleep for 30 minutes, and if she still can't sleep & thinks she's awake, she can stay up, but she can't bother my husband or me if we are sleeping unless she is having an emergency or is sick like throwing up. Before that, she would bother me all the time in the night, and I would never get good sleep. I think she may have heard hubby getting ready for bed in the hall bathroom (it's much bigger than our master bathroom; when our house was built in the 1960s, master bathrooms were pretty much unheard of, and I do wonder if it was later added to the house during a remodel, as we bought the home in the early fall of 2004). The hall bathroom is right across the hall from my daughter's bedroom. It seems she is turning out to be a light sleeper most of the time (like me). Hopefully, it won't signal a propensity toward mental illness though I am told my light sleep & insomnia could have been early symptoms of bipolar. But my daughter seems fine otherwise, if you don't count her many sensory issues, and I do know she was not affected by sexual abuse (never left long enough with anybody for that to happen except teachers at school, all female, not that being female dismisses sexual abuse, but she has always been in a class, with other students, even when practicing for things like math competitions, almost never alone unless sick at the nurse's office, right next door to the main office). And she hasn't had to put up with a yelling, indifferent father who spanked all the time. I don't think hubby has ever spanked her once, and I only did one time when she was really mishandling and hurting our cat. My husband dotes on her, and gives into her more than he should. I unfortunately am the one who sometimes yells at her and has to get her to do things such as homework (which she often feels is pointless because she understood the concept in school when the teacher taught it, or even knew it before then), take a bath, go to bed on time for school. She makes a game with me out of NOT doing these things on time, which she knows pushes all my buttons.