What’s your favorite time of day?
Mine is early morning, even though this morning I woke up panicked, jumped out of bed and went into my son’s room telling him he was late for summer school which starts at 8 o’clock.
“It’s ten of eight,” I said. “I think.” His digital clock still blinked from the last time we lost power. A month ago. His cell phone is his lifeline and his clock. I had no way to know what time it really was, although half-asleep I reasoned it must be later than it should be.
“It’s ten of six,” he grumbled.
He went back to sleep and I let out the dogs and made a pot of French Vanilla coffee. I took the laptop into bed, checked emails and Facebook, lest anyone have an event or status or new uploaded photo I hadn’t seen since 10:30 last night.
I read some news, checked the weather (it’s 57 degrees here) and did a bit of research.
It’s the only time of day when I’m awake and the kids are asleep — you know how relaxing that is when the kids are little? You put them to bed at seven or eight or even nine and you have the rest of the night to yourself? Kiss that puppy goodbye when your kids get older. That flipped around for me when high school started and the late-gene kicked in for my son.
Now my “rest of the night to myself” comes before dawn — or at least before 7am.
By Jo K on Jul 17, 2009
OH heck yes, I know all about grabbing those quite moments! My favorite time of the day is late evening. When all household chores are done, kids fast asleep and hubbie pre-occupied with Top Gear or such like, I sneek upstairs for my date with a book!
My oldest is 12, so bed at 9pm. I dread when that turns around, I have to get up early, just to enjoy some ‘alone’ time. Blah, mornings aren’t my thing.
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By fern on Jul 18, 2009
I used to be a morning person, until I had to be at work early in the morn.
So true about teenagers. A coworker once said to me: “Well, it is easy for you to go back to school, you don’t have toddler, like I do.” I looked at her and said, “Toddlers nap. And they they go to bed. Teenagers don’t.”
She really pissed me off.
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