Summer schedules | pad patter 6.8.17

The only schedule I'm instituting this summer is that we (me and Daniel), go to bed at midnight on weeknights and 1 am on the weekends. Wake up time is 9 am. That fuels our night owl selves and keeps us from sleeping all day.
I literally cannot tell you how jealous I am of a 9am wake-up time. Like, I love my kids and I know I'll miss (some of) these times when they're grown, but I can't remember the last time I slept in till 9.

But I do like how you've instituted a bedtime. It's so easy to fall into a trap of going to bed later and later. I'm a night owl myself, despite my kids' best efforts to change me!
 
@cookingmylife, @gonewiththewind - You're right! Summer is for taking a break and just enjoying life. I do like the idea of a bedtime and wakeup time and will focus on that. Megan and I have been pretty good at getting up by 8 or 9 am, but Aspen hasn't. She'd sleep all day and stay up all night if I'd let her. She does have to get up for work some days to be there at 5 am so she really needs to get to bed earlier. She works different shifts each day, so it gets confusing and her sleep is all messed up. She stayed up until 2 am the other night watching a show and then was late for church the next morning.

@Tree City - I feel your pain on the kids getting up early thing. Megan is an early riser too, so I've had to tell her to stay in her room or use the headphones if she watches a show until at least 8 am. Thank goodness she's old enough to take care of herself for a bit so I don't have to get up with her.

@tkradtke - Aspen stays out late with friends every night like Clara does, so it makes it hard for my hubby. He has to go to work everyday. When he's in town his alarm wakes me up at 5 am. I try to go back to sleep but it's not a good sleep. Megan decided to do an intensive singing/dancing/acting class, so now I have to drive her 20 minutes each way to that twice a week. So much for having a relaxing summer. The girls' activities are going to run me ragged. I feel your pain @LeeAndra Thank goodness Aspen can drive herself to her things. I just wish she could take Megan too, but with her ever changing work schedule, I can't count on her to be around. Her boss keeps changing her schedule without telling her. Last night I asked her what she worked today and she said noon to 4. I asked her what she worked the rest of the week and when she went to look, today had been changed to 4 to 10 so she can train a newbie. She had looked at it a few hours earlier and then all of the sudden it was changed. It's really driving us nuts, that the manager keeps changing her schedule without asking or telling her. We're already struggling to keep her working a job around all her student body officer meetings which change on a whim too.

I guess I'm just getting old and set in my ways. I don't like change as much as I used too. I'm thinking I'll be ready to send em all back to school in a couple of weeks and have the house to myself all day again. I don't know how I'll make it to August.... hehe
 
I literally cannot tell you how jealous I am of a 9am wake-up time. Like, I love my kids and I know I'll miss (some of) these times when they're grown, but I can't remember the last time I slept in till 9.

But I do like how you've instituted a bedtime. It's so easy to fall into a trap of going to bed later and later. I'm a night owl myself, despite my kids' best efforts to change me!

Don't rush it. While the days seem long right now and sleep seems oh-so-far-away . . . just know that the years will pile up and all of a sudden they will be grown and you will have plenty of sleep. No, not every moment with wee ones is fun, but enjoy what you can while they are little. One thing I miss right now is having them sit on my lap and letting me rock them. They are just too big now and it's sad!
 
We are still in school- so this is good 'prep' for me! ;) I work 2 days/week (grandma comes to watch kids then) so those days are pretty scheduled (and out of my control on what they talk grandma into letting them do! ;) ) On my off days, we have a pretty set schedule- but don't follow it strictly. Bedtime is a little more slack- but both are in bed by 9pm- so Hubby & I can watch our non-kid friendly shows or movies! Plus- my kids are early risers- so they know to play quietly or read until 7:30 to wake me up! We have breakfast & 'free time' for a few hours. Usually we plan something every day- even if it's just going to the park or the grocery store- we go do something! They are allowed screens pretty freely, as long as their chores are done.
 
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