Snoring, the cat and, oh yes, those wonderful hot flashes! I remember when I made hot flashes with someone else now they are all mine!

Having to pee and then stress takes over. I feel better knowing that many others wake up at that hour. Now maybe I’ll be able to sleep!

Nice to know I am not alone!!!! Wish we had a chat room ladies!

My 4 year old grandson crawls in around 4 am. I usually snuggle with him for a bit then I get up and let him and Grandpa sleep. I love my quiet time in the mornings.

The ghost of my grandmother yelling, “So, you think we’re the Rockafella’s?” Something is always left on or open. Is there an HGTV program for home energy losers like my crew?

Usually the things I have no control over; so tiresome!

Sometimes my brain seems to be on it’s own schedule and will wake me up, and then it wants to stay on for a few hours. But, around 6 or 7 am it wants to go back to sleep, which is impossible cz I need to get up for work. I’m then all screwed up and tired for the rest of the day. Arrggghhh.

Either a sudden urge to snuggle with my wonderful husband, or our furry four-legged daughter’s urge to snuggle with our legs. But not both. Never both, for heaven’s sake.

Well ever sence I lost my dad… I have the same dream that my mom is calling me to get to the hospital right now and I don’t make it in time to tell him “I love you” Please don’t leave us yet… So I guess that just tells me to get up you will have enough time to sleep when your dead… Live for the “NOW” in life… and say I LOVE YOU to everyone in your family, because you just don’t know when God will call you or them up…

Wake up at 4 a.m.? That’s about when I finally go to bed! Night owl, much?

You have no idea how affirmig this all is for me - I’m starting to think I’m a fairly normal woman!! 4:00 AM? the cat, the bladder, the hormones.

The alarm.

I have a hard time just going to sleep. I can’t seem to turn off my brain…the whole day is gone over and over and than I start on planning for the next day. I finally have to take a sleeping pill just to get a bit of rest. At 2:30 my dog gets me up to be fed and let out (husband conditioned him for this time because he gets up every morning at 3) when my husband is away, but lately it’s even when he is not. I am able to go back to sleep, but I still don’t feel rested.

So what’s wrong with 4am? I love 4 am. When the clock reads 5am, however, I know it is time to get to bed. Why aren’t women who work the night shift ever acknowledged?