This is a post I’m writing on blind faith . I hope the words are coherent and legible. Heck, I hope I’m typing the right letters at all. After all, I can’t see my computer screen when my eyes still won’t open.
I did open them a couple minutes ago, barely. It took super human strength to do so. The clock said six…. something. It’s still mostly dark outside. Nobody should have to wake up this early. Nobody.
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I am listening to all of you and giggling thinking it sounds just like my husband. I am awake around 5am, but am also in bed early. When his son is with us, I get to make breakfast (cause I make it better and am up and cheerful), he gets to fight with him at bedtime. He keeps saying he needs to start waking earlier to trade with me....
Both of my kids are in full time school, not right now cause of summer vacation, and so am I. I have been forced to be a morning person for years. Still hate it, still a zombie til I've had my coffee or other caffeine. 6 am is evil, hell 8 am is evil, but I do it day in and day out. I better have karma points for that ;)
My blog title is "mombie (mom zombie) confessions" for a reason- we're brainless and exhausted out here! Great blog. :D
I get up an hour early to silence every morning because that is all I can stand. I drink my coffee, get ready and then transform into a morning princess that sings the kids awake. I find it works better then just asking them. My oldest claims its kind of like "Snow White on crack", but it makes them laugh and not be as grumpy. We all hate mornings at our house, but you are so right on with starting it with a "fake" good attitude. The alternative is usually a lot like Cruella DeVille meets Shreck, not pretty.
I get up one hour before my kids. My friends think I'm crazy but I need that time so I'm not a Zombie Mom. My kids are teens and I need all the prep time I can get so I can say really great things like, "If I have to come upstairs one more time I'll give you a reason you can't get out of bed!" LOL Maybe I need to get up two hours before them so I'm not so grumpy!
My 2 year old son tattled on his dad after a 6:30am wake up. When asked what he had for breakfast Master 2 replied with, "Daddy snored and farted on the the couch!" I think he has definitely earned his title of Zombie Daddy!
His blogs are so good!
No pretending here. I'm a night person, he's a morning person. But Dad is a morning person, too, so guess who gets to do the morning routine? Trade off: I have to do middle of the night illnesses.
My daughter, who is not yet school-aged, gets to see me in all my morning grumpiness. Especially since she usually wakes up before me. And wakes me up...unintentionally. But, when she DOES sleep later and I have to wake her up for something, it usually IS difficult.
I prefer to be late than fight through the morning! My kids get up at 7:30!
After calling her out for her grumpiness, my 7 year old looked at me one morning and said "you know I am not a morning person, I'm just like grandma!" :) She is right about grandma...
Its called "homeschool." Then you do not have to get up so unaturally early :-)
There's this liquid called coffee, folks. It works wonders for me ! LOL
omgsh-I can so that morning cartoons and fruit loops!