Is it wrong for me to be so excited about having a few hours of peace and quiet around the house that I feel like dancing around like a whirling dervish?
Don't get me wrong, I love my child. Adore her. But peace and quiet is a valuable commodity in the morning at this house -- The Peanut wakes up pretty much every day as her same little chirpy, happy, perky, chatty self. The dogs want to pile on top of me and get scratches and contact.
And all I want is my first cuppa coffee and some blissful quiet in which to sip it. Which I rarely get in the summer due to the aforementioned chirpiness and doggie jostling for space on my lap.
As Mr. ReddHedd says, "When they all stop wanting to be on top of you first thing in the morning, you'll miss it terribly."
It's true: the grass is always greener in someone else's quiet space, I suppose. But I'm still looking forward to the resumption of school, and that quiet space I get after the drop-off in the morning that turns into a long stretch of writing time. Ahhhhhh...
We've been trying to get our respective sleeping schedules back on track for school. Going to bed earlier, getting up at the crack of dawn? Still sucks. It's as much about re-training mom's sleeping pattern as it is anything else.
Honestly, there may not be enough coffee on the planet to make this work for me. Which says a couple of things: (1) I haven't quite gotten the early bedtime to noxious early wake-up time ratio quite right. Need to try an earlier sleep time tonight. (2) More exercise would be useful, too. Yes, I know this is true in general, but it does seem to help with the saggy energy levels as much as the saggy rest of everything, doesn't it?
Today, we'll head over to school and drop off some supplies we've put together as a "start of school" donation. We put together a plastic bin of school supplies every year for The Peanut's teacher. When my mom taught school, she paid out of pocket for so many things every year -- every teacher that I've ever known did this -- so I like to help out on regularly used supplies so their teeny teacher salaries can go a little further. (We really do need to pay teachers better given how important their job is, don't you think?)
Two more days. And then? Peace and quiet in the mornings for a little while. Yay.
Funniest thing I've seen in ages? This.
Put down your coffee before clicking that link, trust me. It's laugh out loud funny -- because we have ALL been there, haven't we?
(Photo via alpha du centaure. Lovely picture.)
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