Night owl

I've always been, for the most part, a night owl.  It's been working fairly well for me anyways because Jason is an early bird and he is usually up when the kids start their day and he lets me sleep in later, especially when we have a baby and I am up several times a night.

Well, I've begun to think that this old owl may need to change her ways if I am going to get any alone time.  Now that we are officially in summer mode & our kids are getting older AND many of Jason's baseball games don't begin until 7:30pm, it seems that bedtime has gotten to be much later.  Not only that, they are starting to sleep in a little longer.  One day a couple of them actually slept until 8am!  So it got me thinking one morning at 5 when I couldn't shut my brain off enough to sleep, that this may very well be my future schedule if I am going to get in any productive "me time".  Unfortunately, my body is not as enthusiastic about it.  I still have a tendency to stay up way past the time that Jason usually dozes off on the couch which would be a time that would allow me enough sleep.  Also considering that Noah doesn't sleep through the night and Ian tends to find his way into our bed, I am finding myself much more tired than a few years ago.  Chalk it up to age or just the fact that we're quite outnumbered now & it seems that the need is constant.

As I consider the change to follow the "early to bed, early to rise" motto, I also think into the very near future as I think about curfews and whether one of us will be able to still keep up with the schedules of teenagers.  By the time I get used to getting to bed early, I'll have to think about staying up late again.