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marihalojen
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Posted: Sept 14 2007 at 9:24am \| IP Logged

We always stay up pretty late, it finally is cool out and you just feel alive once that oven of a sun goes away.

We eat late 8-9pm and then with cleanup and maybe a movie we're pushing 11-midnight before we're actually in bed. Dh is always up super early 4am or so, I sometimes get up with him right before he leaves at 5am and enjoy having that peaceful morning time. If I do get to sleep in it is never past 7:30 as the jets start flying then. Nothing like a Raptor circling the boat to start the morning off right! Lately though the Chief Petty Officier Selectees have been PTing on the beach at 6am so we've been woken up to Anchors Aweigh over and over again, this group is not very inventive with their cadences, at least this early in the morn!

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Cay Gibson
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Posted: Sept 14 2007 at 6:00pm \| IP Logged

I love the ideal of being an early morning riser.

The reality has me waking at 7:30 and going to bed around midnight. I figure I need a good 7 or 8 hours of sleep but never a nap.

I love the idea of naps but I find we lose the whole afternoon if we do this and it doesn't work for our family.

I remember when I was in school reading the Little House books. They motivated me to rise early and eat breakfast early. I would look for things to do in the early morning. And, yes, I loved the quiet and stillness of the grayish-black pre-dawn.

But then my teenaged hormones took over and lulled me back to late mornings snuggled beneath the covers.

I went years having to rise early, get myself ready for work as well as the little ones dropped off at the sitter's. The memory is not a fond one. It would take a lot for me to go back to getting up early.

It's nothing for us to sleep until 7:30-8 AM and stay in our pajamas until 10. I often regret this if the mailman comes honking at the door or my dh calls me for a lunch date or my ds woke too late to fix his lunch or some friends call us with last minute plans.

Do I feel guilty? Yes. Sometimes. But I'm usually up by 7:30 AM and I really don't feel that's late at all.

I did have to run outside the other morning to awake my son who had overslept. It was still grayish outside and, as I walked back to the house along the garden path and soaked in the stillness and beauty of early morn, I was reminded how wonderful this time of day is.

But I often find the same peace in the late nights when the house is asleep and I am awake. The effect is still the same.

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