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Early to bed and early to rise....

It's kinda surprising how quickly you fall back into that "school year" routine. I get up at 5:15(or earlier if Kevin hits the wrong button on the alarm and sets it blaring at 4:30....). This doesn't mean, though, that I'm actually up at that time. It usually takes me another 15 minutes to make it out of the bed and then another hour to do the shower, make-up, hair, and dressing thing. So I'm out the door at 6:30 and at work by 6:45. Kids come in at 7:45 and then there's no looking back. They leave at 2:30, I usually try to leave by 3:30 and then it's home to do any schoolwork, grading, etc. for the next day. Kevin gets home around 5:00 and we have dinner and then watch tv or read or something quiet until the lights go out and we collapse around 9:30. And then it's up the next morning to do it all again.

This is a far cry from my summer routine of going to bed around midnight, sleeping till 8 and then somedays I might not change or really get moving until noon. By nature, I'm not a morning person. I know people who speak of the beautiful colors of the sunrise or the peacefulness of the morning. I could argue that there are also beautiful colors in a sunset and a sense of peace after most of the world is tucked into their beds for the night. I'm not a night person in that I like to be out running around until 3am, but I do function better in the late evening than I do in the early morning. This rising at 5am routine goes against my own internal preferences.

However, meeting my own internal preferences would mean a career change. What job allows you to stay up till midnight and sleep in again till 8? Somehow I think I'll stick with my early morning alarm and fake my "happy to be here" attitude until 9:00. The kids haven't caught on yet! O:-)


One final note: I would never wish another hurricane on either the Gulf Coast OR Florida. Heaven knows both areas have seen more than their share. But when storms brewing out in the blue yonder mean that husbands have to stay home instead of going out to sea for a week.... Well, then thank goodness for the little things that make life better. Just as long as they stay out there in the blue yonder where they belong.