11 Apr 2014

Early Riser




I've always been a morning person. Getting up in the early hours of the morning has never been a problem for me. I loathe late nights & still need a good eight hours of sleep each night. But I can do early mornings. Well, that was, until I had kids.

From about 8 months of age, our eldest, William, started waking at 5am. Being a new mum & all that, I just took it as part of the norm & since then he's always been an early riser. I didn't mind it too much, being a morning person, but then I fell pregnant with Angus & it got a little harder. Then when Angus was born it was months of sleepless nights with William all the while still waking up at the crack of dawn.

I'm not going to lie, sometimes it nearly killed me & there were many mornings of  crankiness, tears & pleading from me, to get a few extra hours of morning sleep.

This summer just gone was the best few months so far. The kids now share a room & they were both sleeping in til 7am most mornings. It was awesome.

Last weekend we turned our clocks back as daylight savings ended & we are back to 5am starts.

It's certainly taking some adjusting to. Thankfully, Angus is a little more like his dad so while William gets up at the crack of dawn, Angus will sleep for an hour or so longer & William is old enough now that if I give him a drink & a snack he will happily watch TV while I sneak back to bed for a bit.

I use the extra morning hours as productively as I can. I get the washing on, do a bit of housework or catch up on my blogging (like I'm doing now)

Everyone tells me that when the boys are teenagers I won't be able to get them out of bed.

To be honest, I can't wait!

Do you have an early riser in your house?

Til next time,
Mel xx

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