This is sponsored content from BlogHer and Crystal Light.

As a full-time working mom of two boys, my sleep is gold. I take it very seriously. It takes planning and preparation to keep me on a sleep schedule. I’m not an 18-year-old college freshman with the energy level and foolishness to pull all-nighters. Back then my classes didn’t start until 10 and the dress code was welcoming to sweatpants and the t-shirt I slept in. My job requires that I arrive at a certain time and while and a dress code isnt explicitly stated, I’m sure my excuse that, “I woke up late and that’s why I’m wearing a grease-stained shirt,” wouldn’t fly.

I get enough sleep because of all the work I do during the day. Kids are fed, read to, snuggled and then put to bed. My clothes are hung up for the next day. My lunch packed, breast pump readied. This keeps me streamlined in the morning so I don’t have to wake up any earlier than I have to.

In addition to preparing my family for the next day, I have to keep tabs on my own health. It’s a quid pro quo system with my stomach. If I eat crap–a fat laden plate of greased up carbs that I bought at a drive-thru–then the next day, I’m a groggy sloth-mess. I keep hydrated during the day, I don’t wake up at night with a mouth so dry, it’s like I licked rocks in a desert.

Keeping hydrated is one way I can ensure a restful night’s sleep. Drinking water flavored with a packet of Crystal Light powers me through the day and allows me to have a bit of shut-eye that every frazzled woman desperately needs.

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How do you get sleep/rest?

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I’m giving away a $100 Visa card this month and will be writing each week, giving you a total of 12 chances to win on this blog!

That kind of luck not enough for you? Check out the other bloggers reviewing Crystal Light over at BlogHer where you can also win $1,000! Who doesn’t love money!?

Rules:

1. No duplicate comments.
2. You have THREE ways to enter! Your initial comment is your first entry.
3. You may receive one additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
4. You may receive one additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
5. This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older.
6. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
7. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

Please see the official rules here: Official rules

Winner to be chosen via the Random Number Generator.

Visit Crystal Light for more product information.

This is sponsored content from BlogHer and Crystal Light.

I consider myself a pretty happy person, someone whose three-fold approach to obstacles is: cry me a river, build me a bridge and get OVER it. I don’t dwell on what is out of my control. I don’t weep over people who slighted me years ago (read: my entire time in junior high). Now as a full-time working mom of two I have a simple way to keep a positive attitude: find the happy escape route.

It’s not easy to keep a positive attitude when the world is bogging me down with parent-teacher conferences, emails, lactation issues, post-pregnancy pants that still don’t fit, bangs the stylist didn’t cut correctly or my husband who told me this morning just I was walking out the door that he couldn’t drop our son to daycare so I would have to.

After groaning and pouting for a bit, I sought for the happy way out of an understandably annoying situation. I could spend some more time with my son, I could turn on the radio and enjoy the time together. It was an attitude adjustment that transformed an impromptu run to my son’s daycare into a chance to belt out 80s tunes with a four-year-old. Have you seen a kid try to sing “Forever Young?” That’s a definite mood-lifter.

It’s not easy to see the upside to situations but there are happy routes and quick fixes. A radio station with an ample 80s playlist alleviates a stressful morning and molds a young mind to appreciate New Wave.

When the summer eventually arrives to Seattle and these morning melees need something more, a small packet of Crystal Light will transform a cold drink into a pink lemonade escape, making even the bitterest, grump inducing of days refreshing.

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How do you keep a positive attitude?

Leave a comment to enter into the giveaway fray! You can also enter by linking this post on twitter and blogging about it.

I’m giving away a $100 Visa card this month and will be writing each week, giving you a total of 12 chances to win on this blog!

That kind of luck not enough for you? Check out the other bloggers reviewing Crystal Light over at BlogHer where you can also win $1,000! Who doesn’t love money!?

Rules:

1. No duplicate comments.
2. You have THREE ways to enter! Your initial comment is your first entry.
3. You may receive one additional entry by linking on twitter and leaving a link in the comments.
4. You may receive one additional entry by blogging about this contest and leaving a link in the comments.
5. This giveaway is open to US Residents, aged 18 and older.
6. Winners will be selected via random draw, and will be notified by e-mail.
7. You have 48 hours to get back to me, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

Please see the official rules here: Official rules

Winner to be chosen via the Random Number Generator.

Visit Crystal Light for more product information.