When I was in high school, University and when I was married without children, I used to look forward to this weekend. I used to love the “fall back” time change because this was the time you could catch up on one hour of sleep. Sweet.
When you have young children, you don’t get an hour of extra sleep, you actually lose an hour of sleep because their little bodies haven’t adjusted and we all know they work on clockwork.
My six year old daughter wakes up for the day between 5:30 and 6:15 and my son wakes up between 6-7 depending on the day.
My children typically are in bed by 7:15-7:45.
Last night we kept the kids up until 8:45 in hopes that would help this morning’s early rise time.
No.Such.Luck.
My daughter woke up at 4:40 and my son shortly thereafter.
Thank goodness I went to bed at my usual time of 11pm because I’m exhausted.
Today will be a day filled with coffee!
The first pot is freshly ground beans from Starbucks. We’ll see where the day takes me! Maybe a run to Tim Horton’s later on.
Today, instead of complaining about the fact that my children are up early, I will think once again that this too is a phase. One day I’m sure we will have to drag them out of bed on the weekend.
lol those were the days!
Now that my daughters are on their own, and with their own lives/families…..I so miss having those issues 🙁
Sleeping in, those certainly were the days. (LOL)
We had no luck with DS4 as he is an early bird, like, DH, and gets up early. He’s usually up before 7AM, he was up around 5AM. As for DD6, she is like me and loves her sleep. She will sleep in until you wake her. lol Both my kiddies are usually in bed by 8:00-8:30 and I wake them up around 7:30 (Well, wake DD up at 7:30, DS is already awake, dressed, fed and ready for the bus by the time his sister is up!)