Entry FeedIt is 9 am on family day, and we are just getting up. Well, some of us are. Son Two is still blissfully slumbering away.
Before kids, I liked my sleep. In fact, I would say that it was the hardest adjustment husband and I had to make when we had children. Lack of sleep was so hard on husband, that after each child he had some strange illness (scarlet fever? really come on! Who gets that?)
Husband did have a little easier time than me. He grew up on a farm, so often before breakfast was served he would have a few hours of chores. He learned to nap - short naps, anytime, anywhere. As an adult he took a job with shift work. Husband still naps anytime, anywhere. Actually, it used to really bother me. He would sneak away and I would find him sleeping somewhere.
I fell in love with sleep relatively late in life. In university I actually came up with a sleep rule for myself - I had to be awake every day for at least 12 hours. Except weekends. I could be in pajamas; I could even stay in bed all day. If I didn't wake up until 10:00 am, then I couldn't go to bed until 10:00 pm.
Then I met my husband, who introduced me to napping in the afternoon. Our first apartment had these blackout blinds, so it was like a cave anytime of day. One of our first purchases when we moved into our house was to get blackout blinds for our bedroom. Really, we are like bears hibernating. This winter we added a new fuzzy blanket to our bed, and now I never want to leave.
The good news is that our love of sleep has been passed down to the next generation. My kids never leave their beds at night unless their are sick. Daughter is the first one awake, and never before 7:00 am. This morning she woke at 8:13. Son One is the normally the latest sleeper. There are days where we are pushing him out of bed at 8:34 to try to get him to school for 9:00 am. And it will definitely cut his hockey career short when they start adding early morning practices.
But for now we take all the sleep we can get. We love sleep.
I am often tempted to list sleep as one of my hobbies....
Sleeping in, napping, it's all good to me!
On another note my kids are both later sleepers, lucky for us school doesn't start till 9:15...my son will get up early for hockey with no complaints, early for school, now that will be another matter altogether!