Sweet Dreams
I probably wake up at least a half dozen times during the night for one reason or another… usually because one of the pups has decided that there’s something really exciting going on that needs investigating. Getting back to sleep is a challenge for me. Once I’m awake, I can’t seem to shut off my brain again and sometimes lie in bed for an hour or more before I finally give up and get up for a while. The way I figure it, as long as I’m awake I may as well work on the website or a blog or whatever. When I do that, the next night I can usually count on sleeping a little better only because I’m so tired.
Our last home, in the tiny community of Holman, TX, was down the road from some busy gravel pits. ‘Busy’ as in the trucks started running about 3:30 a.m. every week day morning, so you’d go from dead silence to the sound of semi’s thundering up and down the road to the gravel pit, making sleep nearly impossible once they started running. I found a great little bedroom device (get your mind out of the gutter!) that did the trick – a white noise machine. It’s not high tech, but it works by making soothing background noise. We’ve since moved from that house to another that is way out in the sticks… and even quieter at night. Well, except for the dogs. So the white noise machine still helps.
But another favorite sleep aide for me is my fragrance lamp. Burning it at night, while we sleep, is one of my favorite times to use it. When I wake for whatever reason, sleep always seems to come back a little quicker when the lamp has a soothing, clean scent going. Now if I could only figure out what scent would keep the dogs quiet!
