I often organize my closet when I can’t sleep or creep quietly out to the family room to cuddle up on the couch with my laptop (which I’m doing right now). Since having Fibromyalgia/ ME/CFS, sleepless nights are a common part of life as they change the normal cycles of sleep.
Like a mouse I arose from my bed tonight, careful not to awake my sound to sleep hubby. We have a walk in closet that is off of our bathroom rather than our bedroom. I can turn on the closet light and work quietly without waking him. This week I’m in the midst of Spring Cleaning our closet. I just finished filling a laundry basket with clothes I no longer wear.
Most sleep difficult nights, I’m able to nod off sometime before dusk. When I wake and walk into my closet to dress, I enjoy finding it more organized than when I got into my pjs the night before. I enjoy it most when I forget that I was up working in the night; IT FEELS AS IF I PURPOSELY SET OUT TO SURPRISE MYSELF. (Imagine its similar to how the shoemaker must have felt in the “Elf and the Shoemaker” when on rising he finds the shoes he thought he’d toil over the following day, complete and lined up neatly in pairs.)
What do you do when sleep alludes you?
