I’m not a morning person. I’m downright scary in the morning. I hit the snooze alarm three times, I drag myself out of bed at the very last possible moment, run downstairs to wake up my young ‘uns (the teenager doesn’t trust my morning madness and wakes an hour before me). The next 40 minutes are filled with chaos as I rush around getting them ready, getting me ready, tending the dog. It isn’t very pleasant; it’s actually quite Unpleasant to be honest.
The idea of NOT hitting the snooze alarm has never really been considered ‘round these parts. That’s why this was such a novel idea for me. What if I resisted the urge and actually got out of bed a whole fifteen minutes early? Nothing crazy, we’re not talking any real loss of sleep. Just eliminating those last lazy fifteen minutes.
On Thursday I tried it. I’ll be bluntly honest and say it hurt a little. It felt a little sad even, losing that last leg of sheet and blanket burrowing that we anti-morning people love so well. However, as my bare feet hit the cold linoleum floor of the kitchen to grab a cup of coffee the teenager had brewed, I had my first glimpse at how nice it might be. I wasn’t running. The young ‘uns were not fighting. It was just quiet and peaceful.
And just like that, I discovered the value of having fifteen minutes to myself in the morning. The teen does his own thing, so it really was just quiet reflective time, not feeling hurried or stressed, and I liked it. Whereas my mindset had been to eak out every minute of sleep possible, by slightly shifting my paradigm I recognized the value of eaking out a little time to myself. What a difference!
15 minutes later, chaos again ensued. We still ran around and prepped for the day in a mad rush, there were still arguments, I still felt like I was leaving just a minute too late…. But that’s okay. I had that ME quarter hour. I felt a little more at peace with the chaos.
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it's been such an amazing thing since Jeff started waking the kids up when he leaves for work in the morning. the kids get their showers in (more time spent together at night now), and they have plenty of time to eat breakfast (they are very slow eaters), and they've even had time for some morning 'toons! You should try it. BUT my problem now is that the kids expect to be woken up at 6:30 and when the boat's gone that's darn near impossible for me to do
ReplyDeleteFunny you say this, I made another big change this week I failed to blog about (lol) We got Baylee an alarm clock! All week she got herself up and dressed so I only had to deal with Anabel- its been MUCH nicer around here in the mornings!
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