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AnneofAlamo

AnneofAlamo

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I usually wake up at 5ish. Drink large quantities of coffee, read, and pray. Then fiddle fart.
Serious. Play a little game. Write out ways to rearrange my living room. Maybe grocery list.
But it is my prepare time for when my house awakens at 8:30.
Today, I woke at 9am! Yep, 25 minutes ago!!!!
I feel all out of sorts, and have only two cups of coffee in me.....

My littles were unsure what to do. This is a first for homeschooling day? lol

We devised a plan. They are so happy that they can get up all by themselves, and the helper of the week at 9am, can come in and see if mom is alive! bhwhahha

What happens if you are late? Have you been....(pun alert) LATEly?
 
my bladder is my alarm clock.. LOL I cannot tell you the last time I woke up late. If I have a plane to catch I am up every hour with one eye on the clock.. I am paranoid patty to be late.. now when I was living at home with my parents growing up I slept all day long and stay up all night long...Prior to getting married, I would wake up when I was supposed to be at work (when I lived in my apt.) and I would often call my boss. I would stay late at work to make up the time, but since getting married almost 25 years ago I am always on time!! :)
 
I try hard not to be late, but there are those times when I completely fail! Like Monday. I was supposed to get up at 4:30am, make sure my DD was awake, then get breakfasts and her lunch ready before heading out the door at 5:00 for the rink. Instead, I woke up at 5:30am and didn't even realize it until DD said something about being an hour late since her alarm didn't go off. What???

I do believe my subconscious was telling me we needed an extra hour of sleep. Thankfully she didn't have a lesson that morning! EEk!
 
Yikes, you sure get up early! I am up at 7am. My alarm clock wakes me up, and I usually punch in another 10 minutes to snooze before getting the household up and fed and ready for school. Since I use an alarm, I am hardly ever late.
 
i am always late... even if I plan to be early, so that I actually get there ON TIME, i'm late. it's ridiculous. I didn't used to be this way, but then I had kids. Something about getting them ready, i just never got that adjusted in my brain. I calculate time to get them ready, and it's either waaaaaaaaaay too much time, because they cooperated, or no where near enough time because they didn't. I can never seem to get it to the correct amount.

as far as waking up... i have given up alarms for the most part, and just ask my husband to make sure I'm up before he leaves. :giggle Coffee is programmed to start at 4am. His alarm goes off at 4:10... my silent fitbit alarm vibrates my wrist at 4:30 (which I just turn off). Hubby comes to wake me up at 5am, and then gets the kids up. On the weekends, it's only delayed by maybe 30 minutes. Our kids are early risers, because they are in bed at 7pm. we are in bed around 8-830pm. On the very very few occasions where hubby has left before kids wake up (maybe like a weekend OverTime, or an early morning motorcycle ride), the kids' waking up/noise wakes me up... which is a good thing... a quiet 3 and/or 4 year old is cause for concern :giggle
 
I am up by 5 am; I have always been an early riser. I have an alarm clock in my head so I have never used one. As I get older I am like @cfile and get up during the night to visit the bathroom. This I do not particularly care for, but I am working to improve.

Once I learned to rely on the alarm clock in my head - I don't stress on it. When we need to get up at 4 am to catch a flight - no worries.
 
[background story] I have a wake-up light by Philips. It basically starts to slowly light up about half an hour before my alarm goes off, which in my case, is my fav radio stream. There are two alarm settings, the first one is always set at 6:20, the time I wake up to go to work. The second one I change to whatever time I need it to go off on those other days. On days that I have to work, I use my phone alarm as a back up. As a "now it really is time to get on it Berniek!!" alarm. [/background story]

This morning, I woke up by my phone alarm going off at 6:45. I had changed the time on alarm setting 1 this weekend instead of on alarm 2 and then turned alarm 1 on for this morning. Ugh. It was dark (well, almost) and I woke up disorientated. Because I never wake up in a dark room: it's always either the light or the sun waking me. I hate waking up like this! I have had a headache all day (which may also be me getting a cold but still) and I am much more tired then normally.

Today was not a good start.
 
I'm not a typically late person. I prefer to be 5 minutes early. And if it's something I'm nervous about? I'll be even earlier.

I'm adjusting to this PDT though for online stuff - so I was almost late to Cheryl's scrap and chat last night! And I missed a few other things because I didn't write down the right time. Whoops!
 
I am all disoriented lately because of late night feedings with my little one. I swear during the first month 7am -10am was my "zombie time"...I literally would jerk awake, sit straight up and grab my phone in fear that I was horribly late for something...thankfully, I am on maternity leave and don't have anywhere to be. My kiddos know to wake me up by 8am if I am driving them to school, otherwise I would sleep right through everything - not that they would mind :giggle
 
I think it was 2mo ago or so? I woke up at 7a & I normally wake up before 6a. I start work at 9a an hour away, after getting my kids ready & getting them to summer camp & daycare. I called my boss in a panic telling her I knew I'd be late. Then on the way there, there was a huge car accident & I ended up over an hour and a half late to work. It was so awful. I was thrown off for a good part of the day.
 
I have the dog alarm, howling to be let out of her crate to go for a morning walk. Typically between 7 and 7:30, although some times on a weekend, as late as 8am. As I get older my body is starting to do that if it is light outside it must be time to get up.

I do enjoy the quiet house before the rest of the family wakes up, after the dog walk, and breakfast for me and the pets. But 5am is toooo early!
 
When my daughter first started her second job, she had to leave at 5 am (for the first week... now she leaves at 4). So I was all worried because she has sleep disorders and can't usually wake up on her own. I woke up twice worrying about her getting up on time. I finally jumped out of bed, ran into her room, shook her awake and was all freaked out about the fact she was going to be late. BUT... it was 3 am... not 5. :giggle She was so frustrated at first, but then happy to be able to go back to sleep. I didn't have my contacts in, so when I glanced across the room, I read the clock wrong and was frantic thinking she was late. :giggle

I don't wake up late... even though I wish I could (every day). :giggle Kennedy is always up before me, so I don't get to sleep late. I now have to get Jessica up at 3:30 in the morning and stay awake long enough to make sure she's moving. Then Tim gets up at 5, and if I don't wake up then, he wakes me up to say goodbye (gee, thanks honey). And then Kennedy will get up anytime after then.
 
I used to run late last year to get Daniel to school . . . you know, just so we'd have to rush around, which I hate. There were a couple of times where we just slept right on through the morning . . . I blame medication and back pain! Seriously! LOL

This year, his start time moved from 7:25 am to 9:15 am. A chorus of angels sang for the occasion. Now I'm usually up at 7:30/7:45 and have a few minutes before I wake Daniel up at 8:00. We get ready and head out the door no later than 8:45. With traffic, I get him to school before 9:00 most days. I like to be back and started on my own day at 9:00 am, so I'm ready to get him out the door . . .
 
It's Okay @AnneofAlamo DSD will do that to Pollys especially. My sleep patterns will not settle down this year. I think I get on a normal schedule then suddenly it's all messed up.
 
I am NEVER late (okay- well now that I have rottens I am occasionally late- but NEVER because of me! ;) ) So my mom was (still sorta is) a perpetually late person & scarred me for life. Thankfully my hubby is just like me & we're usually early to everything. My daughter is a type-a, planny plannerson on top of a super early riser- she likes to leave for the bus stop 8 minutes before she has to be there (it takes maybe 2 minutes to walk the three house length!) Both kids are up & going by 6:30 but know to not wake up mommy until 7-0-0 :D
 
I leave the house at 8am to work. I automatically wake up at 630-7am without an alarm clock. I do turn on the alarm ONCE IN AWHILE. But I have never depended on one. LOL!! I think my body has been tuned in such a way that if I'm suppose to get up at 7am .. I will just automatically get up 30mins before 7am. Maybe it's because I was a flight attendant and it's in my blood not to be late. I have never missed a flight for 14 years. That's just me.
 
Honestly, my health issues make it where I rarely sleep past 5:30 even without an alarm. If I take a really good relaxer or sedative I can sleep- but as a mom of littles I get a little nervous about that because I literally cannot wake up with those. That being said - I actually LOVE my early mornings - like you - is my time to collect myself and find my focus for the day. If I do wake up late then I am stressed all day - plus I am an introvert and I have 2 out of three kids that are extroverts, and one that has Quality time as a love language and 2 with affection - so I am literally out of gas by the end of the day - I need the morning time to refuel and be ALONE and UNTOUCHED! lol!
 
Yikes indeed! 9am! You must have needed that sleep.

Americans tend to get up earlier than people in most of the places in the world we have lived. We get up earlier (6am) than a lot people here in NZ, thanks to our morning work schedules. But this morning I woke up at 4.45 am and decided to get up and get on with stuff. The Husband was NOT impressed at all! :P
 
I'm lucky to be asleep by 4 am. Then up at 6 am to get the teens off to school. I go back to sleep after they leave. I try to get up around 1pm. I never do. I have the hardest time staying awake during the day. My body would rather be awake all night and sleep all day. I swear I'm nocturnal.

Anyway, as far as being late. I try very hard not to be late ever. My anxiety and other processing issues go into full swing if I'm late, or running late.
 
I had to learn to be more than on time because of the jobs I ve had.... you can't be late for theater performances, or when I was a tour guide, if you are not at the airport when the passengers arrive or are not in the bus to start a tour pick up..... you don't get paid.
Then herein England I worked first with the NHS, which it was a breath of fresh air because the clinics are NEVER on time LOL- thenI went to work on law enforcement with the Met, Immigration and Customs & Excise.....there you NEED to be on time...so I used to keep good timing...
But since I stopped working... and I am a terrible insomniac (02:18 am here!!!) I m relaxed as nothing will happen if I am late....
 
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