Long Mornings

The mornings sure do drag on forever when you wake up at 5 or 5:30!! I find myself looking at the clock and thinking, "Wow-it's still only 8am! SuperTarget is still closed!" The big kids seem to be advocates of Ben Franklin's "early to bed, early to rise" philosophy because they've been going to bed between 6 and 7 and waking up around 5-6. They may be waking even earlier but I can usually ignore them for a while so I don't always catch the time when they wake. Xander has been waking early for a long time but he was good about playing quietly in his room by himself. Now that the girls are waking early too, they want to play together which means I have to get up to make sure the inevitable fighting doesn't get out of hand. I'm not sure how these kids can be mine. I'm more of the late to bed, late to rise type! Even when we do manage to keep them up until 8 or so, they still wake up early. Marie seems to prefer sleeping in like me. The good thing about waking early is that I'm not so rushed in the mornings anymore. Maybe I'll grow to like it and turn into a morning person!