Hubby and I decided to stop buying soda (read: Dr Pepper) awhile ago to help snip! snip! our spending. (We are still very much adjusting to be a one-income family!) It's been fab! I really haven't had any caffeinated beverages since then. I make decaf sweet tea here, I don't drink coffee-- so that left my caffeine intake to chocolate (definitely not quitting that anytime soon!), but I never really noticed that I was missing the caffeine fixes...
Funny little rabbit trail: Buggy just woke up from her nap and look what she found on mommy's desk! No fair mom, you never save me any!

The next day we celebrated my mom's and my sister's birthdays and I had soda with dinner again (it was a special event, of course!) I had trouble sleeping again on Saturday night and this time I thought maybe the soda had something to do with it.
Tuesday hubby and I shopped for groceries at Wal-mart and got a small DP from the McDonalds to share (it was about 5pm) and... you guessed it! Couldn't sleep that night either!
I seem pretty dense since I had so much trouble "getting" this, but I think cutting down on caffeine in the previous months has made me suceptible to its power. I really have to pay attention to when I'm drinking caffeine and really limit it to very early in the day so I won't loose anymore sleep over this!
So, I quit... (after dinnertime anyway!)
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