Good Morning
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Every day this week I have been forcing myself to get up at 07:00. Naturally, I am somewhat of a nocturnal person, left to my own devices, the time I go to bed will get progressively later and later. Combine this with the fact that I have been unemployed for approximately the past 8 months, my sleeping schedule has fallen into what is "normal" for my body. The only limiting factor in this equation is the fact that I have two small children.
Toby has actually gotten pretty good at going to bed at a decent time. He used to be pretty much of a night owl, but (thanks to the efforts of my wife) has been managing to go to sleep at a normal time for a 2 1/2 year old boy on most nights.
Then there is Random… Much like her brother when he was younger, she tends to stay up fairly late. I am pretty good at getting her to sleep by standing up with her and rocking her, but that does not always work. I can only hope that in time, we will be able to get her to bed at an earlier time.
This will become very important to them as they get older and start going to school. I have always felt that school starts entirely too early. I understand most of the reasoning behind it. They try to get the kids to school before their parents would traditionally have to go to work, but it was always so early. I have always felt that my grades in school would have been better had I started even 2 hours later. Then again, maybe I should have just studied harder.
I will be starting my new job this coming Monday. I will be required to be in Ann Arbor by 8:00. My current wake time of 7:00 most likely won’t be sufficient. I plan on eventually pushing my alarm clock back another half hour tomorrow to get my body used to being a morning person once again. Once I have acclimated to 6:30, I’ll probably push it back again to 6:00. That should give me plenty of time to lollygag before having to go to work.