I have always been the mom who sleeps until the children wake me. This is usually around 9 o'clock or later. I have never been a morning person. I know moms are supposed to be up and ready and have their chores done and breakfast on the table by the time the kids are out of bed but what would I do for the rest of my day? Last year, I struggled to get up and get school started for the day so we usually didn't start until about 10 annnnnddd I had to fight every morning! So I did some research on how to become a morning person.
1. Go to bed early and at the same time every night (what about my shows???)
2. Make sure you're getting enough sleep ( I definitely had this down pat!)
3. Turn off ALL electronics at least an hour before bed
4. Don't eat too close to bedtime (oops)
5. Wake up an hour earlier than your children
There were a lot of other suggestions but these sounded pretty easy.... righhhhtttt. I didn't actually think I could pull it off. You see I have children. Children who know when you have five minutes of free time and steal it right away. None the less, I decided to try to incorporate "wake up an hour earlier than your children". I didn't do this exactly. You see, an hour early puts me at waking up .. well earlier than I want but none of that matters anyway. I set my alarm for 7:20 AM not PM. Which is around the time I had been waking up naturally toward the end of summer. Ahhh summer. Oops sorry back on track.
I get up every morning at 7:20 and immediately read my Bible. That was another thing I wanted to make sure I did, spend time in God's word first thing in the morning. The next step was getting my oldest up early enough for him to have enough time to himself in the morning so he wouldn't be grouchy about having to do school every day. I set his alarm to 7:45. The time between when I get up and he gets up is enough for me to get a little bit of peace that passes all understanding.
Then I developed a problem. Every morning when I got out of the shower my youngest would be awake. This is fine and all but no more peace. I can't even get dressed alone now. I proceed to have to lock myself in the bedroom long enough to find a clean pair of yoga pants and make my bed... alone because I don't need help with this. A normal mom probably wouldn't mind the help but remember this is still supposed to be my quiet time. And my youngest is the biggest chatterbox. I love it but did I mention not being a morning person?
Okay I am really fine with all of this. I still get enough time to center myself. It's when the following started happening... My oldest starts waking up earlier and earlier every day to the point that he is up when my alarm is going off. I really don't even mind this because he does his own thing and doesn't bother me. It does, however, when he is up and his game is on full blast five minutes before my alarm is supposed to go off. Or when my youngest starts waking up earlier and wanting to get in bed with me and NOT go back to sleep at 6 or 6:30. Then she wakes up at 6 and we go to pee and the oldest yells down "Hey, you know I'm not asleep". It's the domino effect. The next morning the youngest repeats the day before and the oldest runs down the stairs at 7:00. You see, I have kids. The kind that make it impossible to be awake and do anything alone before they wake up because THEY KEEP WAKING UP EARLIER AND EARLIER!
Yeah, Let's be a morning person. They are more positive and happier. It'll be easy!
Yes I locked myself in my bedroom until I heard the coffee pot finish this morning. No I am not a morning person today.
No comments:
Post a Comment