Mornings...

I am not a fan of mornings. I never have been, and as a mother I have learned that I almost truly hate them. It works like this almost EVERY morning. I'm lying in bed, peacefully asleep when I hear what sounds like a herd of elephants thudding down the stairs and into the hallway. The herd of elephants, also known as my son Aiden, then THROWS my door open slamming it into the wall and yells into my room, just in case I could SOMEHOW still be sleeping, "Can I play the Wii?" The biggest problem is that this usually happens when we don't have to be up yet. Usually a good hour before the alarm is set to go off.

WHY? I love my sleep, I really do. I cherish it. Especially now that all of our children sleep through the night 99% of the time. Except that now I am the one who's up every couple of hours all night long. I can only guess that someone my body misses having a baby around, so it's mimicking having a baby around by waking me up every 2-3 hours at night. It's awful. So, that last hour of sleep would be really nice, but I don't get it. Instead, I lay in a nice warm bed for a little while longer contemplating how to get Aiden to sleep until the alarm goes off in the morning. I think he needs an alarm clock in his room. So regardless of when he wakes up, he knows he's not allowed to wake up the rest of the house until the alarm goes off.

And honestly, it's not like I expect to be able to stay in bed until 10am or something (although, that would be really REALLY nice, LOL). I'd just like to sleep until 7am when the alarm goes off (or 8am every other Monday because of this weird late start the school district does). The kids know that if they need something (they had a bad dream, need a drink of water, have to go potty, etc) that they are allowed to get up and take care of things. So it's not like they are forbidden to leave their beds before the alarm goes off, but does he really need to request Wii time like that? It doesn't help that I am a HORRIBLY light sleeper, and Joe got up at 5:30am, so I get woken up then, and randomly pulled out of my nice peaceful sleep by Joe getting ready for work. It gets nice and quiet after Joe's left for work and then the elephant runs down the stairs...

I might as well just get up with Joe. It's not like I actually get much sleep after he gets up. And he's only up at 5:30 three days a week. I wish I was more of a coffee drinker. That would probably help. But I don't really like coffee much. And energy drinks are just so awful for you, but they're all so huge that it's a waste of money because if I do get one I can't even drink half.

Who needs an alarm clock with a child like Aiden? LOL