Saturday Morning

So many of you noticed that I write my entries pretty early in the morning. Even on today on Saturday I'm up early writing to you. I have never really been a morning person, yet lately I've had to wake up early to bring Devon to the hospital. He gets up around 4:30 am to walk the dog and get ready. I get up somewhere in the 5-ish hour, depending how my night's sleep was. Driving him there and back although it only takes about 10 minutes total gets me up and alert. If it were up to me, I'd go back to sleep right when I get home, but guess what? I come home and there are no running, loud children disturbing my peace! It is a beautiful, quite, calm time and I can't get enough of it! I have usually two-and a half hours from the time I get home until the time the kids wake up to do whatever I please. Lately I've been reading the New Testament and walking for 30 minutes. I feel really good in the mornings and I enjoy the time to myself. I must prepare mentally for the the day ahead, and that includes what I'll be doing, what I'll be eating, and how to handle myself when the kids get challenging.. The kids get pretty roudy around dinner time and that's usually when they are pretty tired and cranky, and so am I.
I try to have a treat or so for us to look forward to at night so that we can all wind down and prepare for sleep. The kids are eating like teenagers lately and they can't get enough to eat! So I let them have a second snack after we read our nighttime stories. Tonight it will be hot chocolate and graham crackers. I look forward to that because I put a little chocolate spread on my crackers. It is so yummy!
And you know, Andrew and Grace are morning people too. When they were babies, it doesn't matter what time you'd put them to bed, they were always up at 6 the next morning. Thank goodness they are sleeping in now. What a treat! Faye would sleep until noon if I let her. She reminds me alot of my sister, Melanie. She is a night owl. She will stay up late and sleep in late. Poor Faye, she is going to have a hard time when School starts again! It takes time to adjust to a new, early schedule. I know, I've had to do it...