Help I cannot sleep!!!!!!!

It has been a busy few days ~ the children are back at school ~ which means we are back to the term time routine (which I hate!!!) ~ making lunches ~ cleaning shoes ~ ironing uniforms and doing homework (the kids of course....not me!!) ~ we are also on a time limit in the mornings ~ as we have to drive to the school and get to lessons before the bell goes at 8.50am ~ so every morning at the moment is a little bit mad!!

It would be alot less stressful if my sweet lovely children actually got up when they were asked, got showered when they were asked ~ got dressed when they were asked (get the picture) ~ but they don't !!!!!!!!!!!!!

The mornings are a rush of me shouting (tee hee) ~ and usually being ignored and rushing about!! Roll on half term in October!!

Matters are not being helped at the moment by the awful weather we are still having (I know that it is nothing compared to the hurricanes etc in other places!!) ~ but I just hate getting soaked day after day and I am not liking the wet and wind swept look at all ~ it is doing nothing for my hair ha ha !!!!

I also seem to have lost the ability to sleep this last week. There was a time when I would lay my head on the pillow and the next thing that I knew the alarm was going off the next morning!
BUT for the last week or so ~ I have been going to bed and lying there ~ just not able to sleep. I could understand if there was something on my mind (in which case I do usually lie awake!!) ~ but there is nothing at all on my mind ~ so it is a mystery!! I got so fed up the other night that I actually got up at 1am and made the childrens packed lunch and then went back to bed ~ this was not the best idea as I was exhausted when the alarm went off at 6am!
Any one with any ideas of how I can bring the sleep back into my life ~ then let me know ~ all suggestions gratefully received!!!!

The rain has also killed our carefully planted and much looked after carrots ~ I think that they have got totally water logged in their pot and are not looking well at all! The children haven't noticed yet ~ so maybe I can come up with a cunning plan to save that situation!!!????

Weigh in day tomorrow and this week has been the hardest so far ~ the smell of freshly baking bread in the supermarket on Sunday morning nearly sent me totally crazy! I must admit that I nearly gave in to temptation and bought some ~ but I didn't ...... the diet angel won over again (thank goodness).

Lauren went back to her dance classes last night ~ she did her tap class and her new modern class which she loves. On Wednesday she has hip hop classes and on Saturday is Ballet, so it is all go. Dan also goes back to Judo on Sunday ~ so we are going to be quite busy!!

I am totally loving driving the new car ~ the bunny hopping has finished, I have the hang of driving it now ~ it is still very quiet and I keep thinking that we have stalled ~ but apart from that it is great ~ I actually enjoy driving on the school runs now (I must be mad!!) ~ the children like to argue about what seat they are going to sit in, but they have a choice of 6 ~ so they are taking it in turns to sit in each of them!

I only have about 20 pages left of Breaking Dawn and I am so sad that I am at the end ~ I don't want it to finish. I noticed online that the film is out in November (not sure whether that is the UK too, or just the US) ~ I cannot wait to see it ~ so that's something to look forward to!!! XXXX