On Wednesday Kiki and I stayed up until midnight. She’d been working all day on a picture book project. I stayed up an hour longer to scan all the pictures before she gave away the book on Thursday. Kiki came home from school on Thursday and crashed into sleep. She slept until 10pm and then was more or less awake until time to get up on Friday morning. She is tired and likely to drag through school today. I took a nap mid day Thursday which restored me to being functional, but fatigue returned in force by evening. I should have gone to bed early, but what with one thing and another, I didn’t. I’m tired today and a nap may be called for. Howard got an invitation to a midnight showing of The Hobbit. He went. When I got up at 5:30 this morning, he was still fully dressed and in the kitchen making breakfast. “By the time I got home an blogged my review, I realized everyone would be getting up in forty minutes. It seemed easier to just stay awake.” He crashed into bed at about 7 am. Link is also tired today from various nights of staying up later than he ought. Gleek and Patch got to sleep in a bit this morning because I knew they’d done their homework the night before.
Not one person in this house has had a normal sleep schedule for the past 48 hours. And it was just Monday when I felt a new commitment to getting to bed on time so we could stabilize the family schedule…
“The best laid schemes of mice and men….”
Darrin: Apt quote!
Sandra: All of you need to re-set that bioclock that’s in you, and here’s one way to do that. Find out when the first rays of sunlight hit the largest window/sliding glass door you can find, then get everyone up at that time for five days. (Why five? Because by that time, everyone will be getting up then.)
Mine got reset when I was in the hospital with pneumonia. Those hospitals have their own routine, and I had to go along with it. :/
This is a lovely idea. Sadly half of the family has to be out the door for school before the sun peeks over the mountains. We’ll muddle through. We’re halfway to normal today.