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So I guess I shouldn’t share with all you early birds that I slept till 9:30 today.
I usually aim to get up by 8, because I tend to not be functional and fall asleep in the middle of math lessons if I try to wake up earlier. But late nights with a newborn – I give myself a little slack.I don’t set an alarm unless we have a doctor’s appointment early. With that said I wake between 6 and 6:30am, and when I’m not in newborn baby mode like now I wake closer to 5am. Half my kids are early birds hopping out of bed before 7am every day, the other half get up at 7ish when I wake them so we can all eat breakfast together and get moving on our day.
My sister is my opposite, they wake around 9am daily, don’t start homeschool until after lunch, stay up late. To each their own!
Ideally I would love to be able to go to bed at 10 and be up at 7, or even 6:30. In reality I’m usually not able to get to bed much before midnight so I’m dragging myself out of bed around 7:30. If I get up much later I won’t always get my devotion time in. Lately I’ve been having to wake up both boys around 8. That gives them enogh time to eat and wash/dress before we have to leave the house at 8:45 to get to my office for 9.
I get up at 6:30 which gives me time to shower and read my Bible and pray. I’m not the same mom without getting on my knees every morning. My husband leaves by 6:15 so my DS4 always gets up to wave to him as he drives out of the driveway. He reads in his room until 7. My DD2 talks to herself in her crib until 7. When I walk in she always says, “Happy to see you, Mama!” Great way to start the day each morning.
I was never much of a morning person. However, once I had my thyroid issues resolved and started eating better and drinking more water my energy levels are better and I can usually make myself get up. I also don’t have any babies anymore. The youngest is 5.
I usually get up at 6:00 when my hubby does for work. We really don’t need the alarm but he usually sets it just in case. I do my personal devotion time which is about half an hour and then I exercise. I could shower then, but if we don’t have any plans that day out of the home or not until later, I wait.
I then try to check emails, switch laundry(I load it the night before and set the timer so it’s done by 6am),take care of the dog, see my hubby off with his smoothie and coffee, check my dinner prep needs, and enjoy the quiet.
Kids have to be up and morning chores done and ready for breakfast at 8:30. We do our Bible together during breakfast, go right into whatever is in the guide for SCM that day together and then independent/mother guided the rest of the morning.
I will shower around 11:00/11:30 so I am fresh for errands or visitors the rest of the day and for hubby when he gets home. If I tried to fit in the shower early morning I would either have to get up even earlier or do less in the morning. Neither of those options seems very appealing to me!
I usually am in bed at 10 although I do admit to reading till 10:30 or so some nights! Seven hours is really good for me. I can do six hours of sleep but eventually it catches up with me.
Wow, you ladies are something to admire! I’ve been getting up at about 7:30 lately since my newest guy is my earliest riser at this time. 7:30 is HARD for me. I have, since the day I’ve been born (so my mother tells me), been a huge sleeper. On the weekends, my husband lets me sleep in sometimes and just brings me the baby to nurse and then heads back out with him – and I can easily sleep until noon without batting an eyelash! Once I’m up, I’m energized, and I don’t drink coffee or anything, so I don’t associate it to any health issues making me really tired, I just seem to function better on a lot of sleep. Those sleep ins are rare these days though, and I’m up with the baby still through the night, so I don’t have a lot of guilt over this. I do really admire those that do bible time and devotions in the morning though. My husband used to have his alarm set to the local Christian radio station, but it always bugged me being woken up to people sounding so chipper and positive, lol. I’m not the most delightful person in the world for the first few minutes when I wake up. I have definite room for improvement attitude wise!
Rachel
Night owl here. I’m up between 7:30-8:00 each day. I’m rarely asleep before midnight and often much later. I have always had a hard time sleeping. Ds9 is up by 6:30 and starts his work. Others wake between 7:00-8:00. Breakfast is ideally at 8:30, but often it’s 9:00. I do not have devotions first thing. If I do, I read and retread because nothing makes sense to me then.
Up at 5:30, when my youngest is usually up for the day. Sometimes up closer to 5am, but rarely asleep past 6am even on the weekends. My other 2 wake around 7 or 7:30.
I prefer doing my devotions at night just because I am more able to think (sometimes!). And when I wake up in the morning, I need something to stare at (a book, computer, something – usually I choose a book) until I feel more awake.
I found that for me too, getting my thyroid sort of normal makes a big difference in my morning. I can tell when my T3 (Cytomel) kicks in! It actually gives me the oomph to get something accomplished! The worst part of my morning is the time I’m still in bed, hitting the snooze button….I want to get up, but it’s soooo hard!!!
I think it is important to find what works for you. Different seasons dictate different things. I used to be a night owl and work on our old house from the kids bed time until 1:00am. Then I hit my mid 30’s, my thyroid took a nose dive after baby number four and I could no longer maintain that schedule. Even once all that sorted out I still wasn’t able to go back to such a schedule.
I used to do my devotions at the start of nap time and then doze off myself until the youngest woke up.
Find what works for you and don’t feel guilty if your schedule looks different than some others. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! However, if you feel that you are not getting enough done, or you really need to implement some personal changes then I suggest using the remainder of the summer as a time to experiment with a new way of doing things. Just give it a bit of time before you write it off.
One last thing, don’t try going from a 9:00am wake time to 5:00am. Unrealistic and setting yourself up for failure right away. Make your changes gradual. You will be more likely to succeed.
Interesting how many have thyroid issues. I have Hashimoto’s myself, but treat with a variety of supplements.
Am I the only one who needs a cold diet coke (can only) to get jump started ? I never could aquire a taste for hot coffee! We wake with the chickens as well, Our Rhode Island Reds usually start crowing around 6:00 AM on our farm, unless it’s cloudy. If it’s cloudy, they hit the snooze; in which case you might get an extra 30min. sleep.
I *would like* to wake up around 7:00, but my body naturally wakes me between 7:45-8:00. If we stayed up really late the night before or if I’m really tired for some reason, 8:30 is not out of the question for me. But then I’m grumpy because I feel like I need to rush so we can start school before 10:00. We don’t set alarms, unless we have to be up for something special, which is VERY rare. I try to schedule extras for the afternoons. The kids are always in bed by 8:30 pm, and dh and I usually stay up til 11:00 or so. If we turn on a good movie and can’t turn it off, we might stay up til midnight, but then we kick ourselves the next morning.
Very interesting about the thyroid issues. I was diagnosed with hypothyroid in January. I treat with supplements and diet, and have noticed great improvements in my sleeping patterns.
We are very similar in sleeping patterns to Lindsey, the only difference being that I am naturally awake on my own by around 7:30, which isn’t really much difference. I often have poor nighttime sleeps. Waking a lot from various things or just not being able to fall asleep to begin with. So sometimes my mornings are, shall we say, rough.
I have also had thyroid issues. Very serious ones in fact….came close to death. I was misdiagnosed for a long time before it was found out that I had Graves, which is pretty much just the exact other end of the spectrum from Hashimoto’s. it seems as though so many women are having weird thyroid issues. I don’t remember hearing much about the thyroid until the last decade or so. Maybe it’s just because now that I have had it, it stands out to me? Or maybe it is becoming more prevalent. It really does affect sleep in a strong and lasting way, doesn’t it.
-Miranda
I usually aim to get up by 8, because I tend to not be functional and fall asleep in the middle of math lessons if I try to wake up earlier. But late nights with a newborn – I give myself a little slack.
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