We have Puppies! But what about Sleep?

From time to time, I have-what I like to refer to as a FLARE UP. It is when my whole body hurts, hurts so bad that all I want to do is stay in bed and try to sleep. But here is the dichotomy- I CANT Sleep when I have a flare up! Argg, what to do.
So this past week I have been having a flare up and wouldn't you know it, I had posted a add a few days before this episode started for one of my dogs. So when I was answering the many responses and setting up appointments, I was feeling pretty normal. (tongue in cheek cause normal is what most people would call being in alot of pain and just generally feeling lousy!) SO I had rescheduled one appointment until Friday-on the hopes that I would get some sleep the night before, or even morning before, and just push my way through the travel and drop off of said dog. Oh , but wait, did I mention that my plans were foiled, as does usually happen when you have a great number of people and pets living in the same household. So what usually happens is that I make apologies, have to re reschedule, or cancel until further notice, and usually end up looking like some what of a flake to others.
Well, Lola, our Pug, decides at 7 pm last night to go into labor. Me, thinking to myself, hmmm, did she do this on purpose, does she have some cosmic power that wants to taunt me when I'm not feeling well. So... Ok, I think, I can do this, it usually only last just a few quick hours, then I can sleep after, or some time shortly after I get her and her new brood settled. But AH HA! Once again, jokes on me! I was up and down, in and out, to and fro, all night with her until 4:30 am. With a few complications, of course, but I wont go into those now. So after I cleaned her up, cleaned up the puppy bed, did the laundry that needed to be done so that the other dogs didn't go crazy on a mad search and destroy mission for that smell, and washed myself up, my alarm went off! DANG! Ok, I will get some sleep when I take her to school and the boys will still be asleep. Once again, my plans are foiled-are you seeing a pattern here?Ok, I think, plans change, I am like a great tree that bends with the wind, I shall over come.
Little girl doesn't want to go to school, she wants to stay with her doggie and babies before she leaves for a week. Ah, so cute, ok, I tell her she can stay. SO she wants every detail, wants to talk, then snuggles up in my bed and goes back to sleep. Ahhhh, I lay down, YES, I am going to get some sleep before my appointment. My mind wont stop thinking, NOOOOO! The new babies need help with nursing, and one of them in a dog gone noisy little bugger. So after that is all done, I try again to sleep, and as you guessed by now-it didn't happen. Ok, so I will just jump online real quick to post some photos and up date my face book as I have had lots of my friends asking about Lola. Then I check my email, reply to a bunch of add combers looking at my adds, and before I know it I have to get in the shower to go to my appointment and also drop my daughter off at our friends house back in Boring.
Less details now, I'm tired, its 1 in the morning, and I think I am verging on crazy. I'm not , and I say NOT, a type of person who can go with out regular sleep. Just ask my mom, she lived with my since birth, and I can get a bit crabby and sorta wacko if I don't get my sleep. I think we all can. But for me, it is just a little extra helping. LOL, sooooo...... I am going back to my room, stuffing ear plugs in my ears ( puppy nursery is in our room and they squeak ALOT!) taking a sleeping pill, and gona try to sleep. The big gun pills, the sleeping pills my Dr gave me, don't usually work on me when I am having a flare up. So, Im saying so alot here, any way, I'm gona try to sleep. Dear LOrd, help me sleep! I would prefer to stay on this side of crazy and not cross the thresh hold into insanity tonight, thank you, and amen!