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Welcome to the mom room. I am so sorry that this is late going up. I never do this. I think it's

happened once before. I don't even have an excuse as to why it wasn't up this morning.

Milo is not even home, but this is what happened. And it's just like real life stuff.

It's not an excuse. Okay. Tuesday, I had some free time, but I wanted to keep organizing Milo's

room because he's not here this week. So I was like, oh, I'm going to get a bunch done.

Because I knew I was going to a concert on Tuesday night and that it would be a really late night and I thought

I might be really tired on Wednesday. So it's a lot easier to just like sit in a cozy position

and record a podcast than it is to be organizing and cleaning out closets and toys and all that

kind of stuff. So I didn't end up doing it on Tuesday. I thought I have a lot of time on Wednesday. I will just do it on

Wednesday. So then we're up late Tuesday night. I get home by the time I fall asleep because the

thing about me is even if I get home really late, I still have to go through my entire nighttime

routine. It's a little bit of a problem. I got home at

1 a.m. and I was so tired, but I had to wash my face, brush my teeth. And I always find once

you wash your face before going to bed, it's like waking yourself up. You're literally cold

plunging your face. And so it gives me this boost of energy.

And I'm like, great, now I'm wide awake. So I get into bed and then I have to read my e-reader,

my cobo for a solid 25, 35, 45 minutes. Because I literally need to read my cobo until, like, I'm holding it up with my hand.

I'm cozy in bed.

And then once my hand starts to like lose life, like my hand starts to like flinch and go down and my eyes kind of close, it's really weird.

That's when I know I'm ready for bed.

But I will not turn off my e-reader and roll over and get comfy to go to sleep until I'm physically falling asleep reading.

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