Is there a rule or tally board somewhere that says “You may sleep in” “You may not”.

Apparently my cats are privy to this determination and I was not informed, they are just in charge. As some of you may know. I don’t sleep, well, I can’t say at all, I sleep 4-5 hours a night, sometimes more if I’m lucky, just sometimes can’t sleep. Then there are the nights I am forcing myself to sleep at 4 or 5am, if I don’t need the sleep, I just don’t.

When I was a kid, I used to love to sleep, not sure what happened well, I do, but I’m not sharing. I’ve always been able to survive on a little sleep and then when I need to catch up, I do. I might take a nap, you know I’m really tired if I take a nap, but sometimes a nap is a wonderful thing, kindergartners really know what they’re doing. Other times, I might sleep in on Saturday until 11 or later, I’ve been known to sleep until noon or one, heaven!

For the longest time, I have been getting up about 6am or earlier, for work or a scheduled run, that includes weekends. For some reason, if I don’t have to get up on a Saturday or Sunday morning, I might get to sleep until 8 or 9, ooh, hold yourself back. I have found that a lot of the reason I am up so early on the weekend or maybe a weekday I don’t have to work…mewing, meowing and scratching at my bedroom door. What?!?

When I got Jymy, I let her sleep in bed with me, big mistake, she never quiets down, she walks over the bed and doesn’t stay in one place, this is all my fault and nothing has changed in over ten years. So now when it’s time for bed, “Ok Jymy Peanut, it’s time for bed” or “night nights” (who knows why that one works) and they leave the room to go and do what cats do, sleep, chase each other, their tails, whatever it is they do and the door gets closed.

It is rare that they, I should say Jymy , will bother me in the middle of the night, but it does happen, but for some reason anywhere between 6 and 9am, she thinks it’s time to meow and scratch and mew at the bedroom door, wth? I am sleeping, I would like to stay sleeping, but that is not to be the case and when I open the door and walk out of the bedroom to see what the problem is…NOTHING! There’s no fire, Peanut is fine, Timmy did not fall down the well…what is the problem? She then runs around and lays down for a belly rub, what?

Are there kitty Valium or sleeping pills? Nothing harmful, just something to let me sleep past 9 on a Saturday or Sunday? There will be loving, cuddling and belly rubs when I wake up. Please…Wish me luck tomorrow!