the advantages of getting up early

[moocowme]

DS 2.2 is getting the last of his teeth through(does seem to be taking a very long time!!) and so is getting up for the day at around 4:30-5am. if i manage to get a nurofen into him around 2am we get a lie in sometimes.

anyway i do seem to be manging ok with it and have actually realised their are some advantages to getting up ealry.

not late for work
clean coordinating outfit on
time for wii sport before work
leasurly breakfast
read paper/magazine
come home to a clean house
dinner ready in the slow cooker on arrival home
checked weather to see i am attired correctly for the day
time to style hair nicely
DS is in a better mood early in the morning so time to do things together for fun

anyon else care to add to the list?

[juneybean]

Longer day?

[bigchris]

isnt he beyond tired by the time he comes home or does he sleep all day at nursery!

[moocowme]

he has a sleep after lunch an is in bed abot an hour after getting home. i go to bed early as well (except when posting on MN)

[Olipop]

My ds is nearly 4 and we think we are having a fab lie in if he makes it to 5.45. He has always been the same and was a 4.45'er. You do end up making more of your day and never have to rush to get ready but it does mean that you want to go to bed earlier (I'm starting to yawn now). I've just accepted that this is the way he is but am intending to give him hell if I have to wake him up for school as a teenager!

[BelleDameSansMerci]

Can you come and live with me please? My DD gets me up at about 6am most mornings and I still can't get us out of the house much before 8:30am. And the house is a tip. And I'm living on ready meals!

[Indith]

you what now? If I am woken up early I stumble round the house in a daze until about 8.30 when I start to actually wake up, perhaps get in the shower, brush my hair and interact with my children.

[MrsMalcolmTucker]

My dd was the same - she's now 4 and we're lucky if we sleep through till 6:30, which feels like a lie in to us.

I never managed to do all the housework that you do, but I did always get a lovely hour or so playing with her before having to get ready for work and nursery, so it was always worth it.

[Maria2007loveshersleep]

This is really taking the price in seeing the silver lining

Can't help really with positives of getting up so early. Eeerrrm, seeing the sun rise?

[Tryingtobeorganisedthisyear]

Plenty of time on the internet...lots of tea and biscuits.

Leisurely breakfasts and getting dressed. I have written all my xmas cards and wrapped most of the presents.

I just wish the rest of the world was up with is sometimes though .....perhaps we should campaign for a worldwide shift in times to start work/school....so those people with 'lazy' kids would have to get up with us

[Broms]

Its about time I started to look at the positives of these early mornings - ds has been a 4-5am-er since May 2008 - so thank you moocowme for starting it. I have ordered most of my Christmas presents on line, I have organised hundreds of photos into albums, and I have a leisurely bath every morning with ds throwing his bath toys at me from the side!

Downsides - permanently exhausted (ds wakes up in the night too) and no social life whatsover as go to bed so early its never worth getting a babysitter and going out!

Its not forever though is it??!

[Tryingtobeorganisedthisyear]

Oh Broms- still no luck (i have had conversations with you i think before i namechanged)

I feel the same about a social life - went out on a rare night out last night, what a waste of time cos i feel worse than normal now due to lack of sleep....

[Broms]

The co-sleeping thing now doesn't work - (I was bringing him into bed with me about 4am when he woke up and to start with he went back for about an hour) - now he's cottoned on and doesn't go to sleep and just screams and points at the door wanting to go downstairs - so having to leave him to cry now with us going in every 10 mins telling him to lie down - I will not get up at 4am. Night 2 of this............

Was to bed last night at 8pm (both had colds this week and was feeling even more shattered than normal) - and even missed X factor as was so tired and thats one of my highlights of the week! Should have recorded it to watch this morning........!