Not Sleeping

Lately, I haven't been sleeping very well. I wake up at all hours of the night and then fall back asleep. Then, I wake up around 6:00 a.m. and toss and turn, willing myself to go back to sleep for several minutes until I finally just decide to get up. This was especially frustrating during my vacation! If any of you follow me on Twitter or are one of my Facebook friends, you might have noticed my early morning posts. It has become a huge problem.

I've noticed been slightly uncomfortable in our bed lately, so I decided the combination of worn out pillows and a memory foam mattress pad that I don't think I like anymore might be the problem. Tonight, I enlisted my lovely husband to help me move the old mattress and memory foam mattress pad to the basement and move the mattress from the basement up to our room. The basement mattress is the first mattress that Brandon and I purchased when we got married, but when we bought the memory foam mattress pad, we had to use the old, hand-me-down mattress because it didn't have a pillow top. I'm going to try this "fix" out for a while and see if it makes a difference.

If not, I googled "sleep remedies" and some suggestions I found were taking wild lettuce pills, drinking warm milk (the thought of that literally makes me want to throw up!), wiggle both sets of toes, at the same time, 12 times, sleep with your feet facing south and your head north, get up earlier, rub your stomach (and reap the benefit of weight loss because it stimulates the digestive system) and a few more I won't mention. Let's just hope that the mattress and pillow switch-a-roo work. Otherwise, I'm afraid Brandon will think I've really jumped off the deep end!