Three days the children have been back to school and I’m trying really hard to consider it a privilege to see dawn in Bangkok each morning. It is beautiful but every morning?
The children’s bus leaves for school at 6.40am so we – by that I mean I, their mother - wake at 5.50am Monday to Friday. Husband continues to slumber because somewhere along the way, this is the deal we struck. Sometimes, I regard getting them up for school as occurring in the middle of the night and I return to my bed, when the bus has gone, to sleep until morning starts properly. I think this is where the deal is fair: even if he wanted to, Husband could not decide that his morning is too early!
I wish that I could make use of the early morning time, but I’m a bit useless without enough sleep. I’m thinking that I might have to do without a social life in the weekday evenings – wouldn’t be hard, I’ve hardly got one now. But it’s embarrassing waiting until the bedtime of 14 year old son, just so I can go to bed too.
As Husband and I approach our seventeenth wedding anniversary I often wonder at the fact that we’ve lasted so long. His bedtime is often four hours later than mine - my morning often starts four hours after he came to bed. He can function on five hours regularly a night while I’d be committing serious crimes if I have two nights in a row of five hours sleep.
Still, maybe it’s Jack Sprat and his wife, eh?
The children’s bus leaves for school at 6.40am so we – by that I mean I, their mother - wake at 5.50am Monday to Friday. Husband continues to slumber because somewhere along the way, this is the deal we struck. Sometimes, I regard getting them up for school as occurring in the middle of the night and I return to my bed, when the bus has gone, to sleep until morning starts properly. I think this is where the deal is fair: even if he wanted to, Husband could not decide that his morning is too early!
I wish that I could make use of the early morning time, but I’m a bit useless without enough sleep. I’m thinking that I might have to do without a social life in the weekday evenings – wouldn’t be hard, I’ve hardly got one now. But it’s embarrassing waiting until the bedtime of 14 year old son, just so I can go to bed too.
As Husband and I approach our seventeenth wedding anniversary I often wonder at the fact that we’ve lasted so long. His bedtime is often four hours later than mine - my morning often starts four hours after he came to bed. He can function on five hours regularly a night while I’d be committing serious crimes if I have two nights in a row of five hours sleep.
Still, maybe it’s Jack Sprat and his wife, eh?
9 comments:
That is an inhumanely early time to have to wake up and for your children to have to catch their school bus!!! It's just not right! (You should have a word with the school about this!)I wake up at 7a.m and it feels like dawn!
I know what you mean about waiting for kids to go to bed before going myself. Sometimes I go to bed BEFORE mine go to bed.
As for different timetables. I think that is the secret of a successful marriage. Not seeing each other too much to have time to spat! (but I'm cynical and twisted!)
I am exactly the same, just cannot function without 8 hours sleep a night. I have a theory that people who have problems with anxiety are often not getting enough sleep, it affects mood so much.
Pacha, hello - where've you been? You been writing? I often go to bed before mine at weekends: I am officially pathetic.
Yvonne, OMG, you're so right. I bet lack of sleep alone accounts for my post natal depression!
The Bangkok dawn looks amazing but, I agree, every morning is just too much.
I'm another one who needs 8 hours sleep.
I get up every school morning at 6.15 as my two have to be on the bus at 7.30 and I have to be at work for 8am.
I don't need much sleep at all and usually only ever get the recommended eight hours once every couple of weeks/months.
R and I have completely different timetables and I agree with Pacha that it probably is a secret to a successful marriage.
JJ: You sound just like me! I have to get up at 6.15 to get my son out to school, but although my husband does it too, he happily gets up after 5 or 6 hours sleep and starts his day, and I go back to bed and try to start all over again a couple of hours later. I sometimes wonder how much more I'd accomplish if I could live on 5 hour of sleep a day, but just thinking about it makes me tired!
Pat, it is lovely and often I rush back to my bedroom to find my camera, but there's also a limit to how many lovely dawn pictures one can have!
Debs, how I envy you. I wish I could cope with less, but there's just no point even trying.
Sue, it's not something you can fight though is it? It's not negotiable, you just have to have it.
I used to function fine on 6 hours, but these days I need closer to 8. I'm useless in the mornings. I'm a night owl and feel so much more productive then, but husband is most productive early in the morning, so we're on completely different timetables too.
I think Pacha and Yvonne may be on to something!
Hey JJ! Me too I need my sleep but with the Flynnster about, we've got no chance. Until he came along I didn't know there were two 5.10 per day! Still, getting time to do the editing...when I'm not splitting him up from fighting with Big Brother.
I have every sympathy for you, honey, hopefully my wake up call won't be that early for long! xx
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