10 Hilariously Accurate Tweets About Why Moms Stay Up Late

10 incredibly validating tweets about why moms stay up late (even though we’re exhausted)

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It's the only time for "me time."

Picture it—it’s Thursday night and you’ve had a long day of kids climbing on you, climbing on furniture, climbing on each other. You’re exhausted. You should probably go to bed, but you don’t—because moms stay up late. Or at least, they have a tendency to.

Why? Why do we do this to ourselves when we’re Just. So. Tired. The answer is simple. It’s our “me time.” No kids, no chores, no obligations to anyone other than ourselves and season five of Selling Sunset. (“Oh my God I could never walk in those shoes,” I mumble to myself, as butter-saturated popcorn crumbs fall onto my Dolly Parton pajamas.)

Yes, sometimes moms stay up late. Not because we always want to (though more often than not, we do). But because we have to. Our sensory overload demands it. We need to wind down before we slip into unconsciousness and tackle the same crazy day all over again.

Revenge bedtime procrastination is real, and we are not sorry. (Sleepy, yes. Sorry? No.)

Here are the best tweets to explain why moms stay up late—and they’re hilarious.

Me: Why am I tired all the time it's such a mystery

My brain: Please can we go to bed at a normal time, maybe find out circadian rhythm

Me: No we will watch ten episodes of this random TV show I found and indulge in revenge bedtime procrastination
— Vi La Bianca (@AuthorConfusion) April 27, 2022

My kids don't like going to bed because they think exciting things happen after they're gone.

Little do they know them going to bed is the exciting thing.
— Jacana Mommy (@jacanamommy) September 10, 2020

That moment when you finally get your kids to sleep and you have 8 million things to do so you climb into bed and do none of it.
— Mommy Owl (@Mommy__Owl) January 23, 2018

Oh, you’re one of those parents with a bedtime routine as opposed to yelling GO TO BED from the couch every 10 minutes for 2 hours.
— Jessie (@mommajessiec) July 20, 2020

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— Bimbo weregoat 🌕🐐 (@aneandes) September 2, 2021

Them: why don’t you just go to bed after the kids go to sleep if you’re always so tired?

Me: I stay up a lot later than I should every night because I don’t belong to myself during the day. So I want to belong to me for a few hours before I go to bed for everyone else.
— Terri Fry (@momlikethat1) February 12, 2021

parenting makes you do weird things like hate the daylight for waking your kids and preventing them from going to bed
— That Mom Tho (@mom_tho) May 21, 2020

Me: Whhhyyyyyy do the kids insist on stalling their bedtime by talking, acting out, or taking improvised poops? Don’t they know that they NEED to SLEEP???

Also me: *scrolls twitter until 1am every night*
— Richard Dean (@dad_on_my_feet) August 9, 2019

When the only “me time” you get is when everyone else in the house is sleep so you stay up late every night drinking wine and watching TikTok’s 😂
— tdw (@tellisaw_) March 31, 2022

I say I stay up late for my “me time” to stay sane but I’m starting to think what I really need to stay sane, is sleep. I’ll work on it. 🤣🤦‍♀️
— tiff 😇 (@justagirlm0m) April 29, 2021

A version of this story was originally published on April 27, 2022. It has been updated.

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