In my dream world I would go to bed at 1:00 and wake up around 9:00. Jack and Lucy don't quite agree with this plan though. Most mornings Jack is up by 6:30 and Lucy around then, too. Honestly though, four years ago 6:30 seemed like an impossible dream as Jack was almost always up around 5:00. When Jack wakes up, he is UP!!! ready to take on the world. So, mornings have always been a struggle for us.
I read this challenge here, and decided that the start of the school year would be a good time for a little goal setting. I'm not actually doing the challenge, since it was all filled up, but I made up a plan for myself and a week into I can see it making a difference. The first two days I got up at 5:30, but that ended up being too early. So my time now is 5:45 (not on weekends!). At 5:45 I get up and make some coffee or tea. I sit around for fifteen minutes with it and look at the window. After this I spend 30 minutes on something spiritual or otherwise eddifying to me personally. On Mondays I plan to listen to the previous day's sermon from the church I miss. Last week I also spent some time meditating on various family members and reading for a Steiner book study at Homespun Waldorf. Then onto 20-30 minutes of some type of exercise, yoga and stretching for now and hopefully running by the end of the week.
Jack and Lucy are allowed to turn on their lights and read in bed at 6:30. My promise is that I will come and get them out of bed by 7:00. Our mornings really are so much smoother when I wake up before them. And really, what kid doesn't want his/her mama up to greet them? I can't set the tone for the day when I'm hiding under the covers. Before I started this routine, I awoke most mornings to them fighting. Maybe they realized I would get out of bed when I heard crying and yelling?
Now I really have to work on the counterpart to this new plan, getting to bed at a reasonable hour.
