Sleep
I have decided to analyze my routines before and after the offspring to check any differences. The results may surprise you!
Before Children (B.C.)
Home from work at 6
Dinner at 8
Bed at 12:30 - 1am
Alarm goes off at 7:30am
Get up at 8:15am
Rush out the door very very late for work at 8:45am
After Children (A.C.)
Bath time at 6pm
Children to bed at 7pm
Dinner at 7:15pm
Bed at 11pm
Up at 7am or 8am depending on if it’s a kindy day or not
I actually get more sleep now than I did before I had children! But much less time playing computer games. It’s a trade off I guess. We’re just lucky that our kids have the Walker sleep in gene! For example Harry sleeps till 8 - 8:30 most mornings and gets very grumpy if you get him up any earlier. The other factor is that I became self employed around the same time as we procreated, so now I don’t have to be anywhere at 9:00am.
Life is good!
July 27th, 2005 at 2:12 pm
With enough sleep I’d have unlimited kids. Without, 2 is just fine.
July 29th, 2005 at 1:36 pm
procreated - cracking word
I like the analysis … and I love the results.
July 29th, 2005 at 4:08 pm
oh for those sleep genes in my kids! up and about at 5.30am at the moment.
July 31st, 2005 at 8:23 pm
It does change, believe me. This morning we got up at 11am. Honest! Of course the invasion of small persons happened at about 7:30am and 10:00 but at this point in his life, he knows when the grown ups mean business.
August 1st, 2005 at 2:39 am
just so you know i have started posting on my blog again. Have nothing interesting to say however.