to ask: if you have time to yourself in the morning before everyone else is awake - how do you use it?

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Please tell me about your morning routines / habits :) particularly solo ones that take place before the calls of work or motherhood or general life grind take over!

Lie in bed watching YouTube videos.

I love my early mornings to myself. I’m up at 5am, I work on my business while drinking coffee in peace and quiet. Got to the gym at 6:30, back in an hour to get kids to school and start work. In the summer, I try to leave the house before 6am for a walk, I love that clean crisp summer morning air.

I get up at 5.45 and have a quick bath. Then a drink and 5 mins doing Duolingo. I’ll flick through the news and emails and then dry my hair ready to start work by 7 every day.

@Frauhubert I can totally relate to being annoyed by a DH encroaching on what I feel is “my time”. We have also been sleeping separately recently & I find it almost an invasion of my privacy if he wanders in to my room whilst I am waking. Even when we share a room, I can’t abide conversation or any noise. I have to have my own space - physically & mentally.

Also I think it’s important that all chores such as emptying dishwasher, tidying up etc are done before bed the night before. Otherwise what should be a relaxed start to your day & time for you becomes just another hour spent doing housework.