When I was in college I would sleep in till 10am or later on Saturdays. Usually this was a result of staying out late with friends, staying up late watching movies, or a late shift at the Residence Hall desk or RA duty. But I LOVED lazy weekends. I would even go to church on Saturday night, just so I could sleep in the next day.
Then I got a job where I had to work early morning. BLECH! If I slept in on my days off, it completely threw off my sleep schedule, and getting into work by 3:30 in the morning was hard enough. Then grad school came along, another job working weird hours, married life, and now one child later, and sleeping in means sleeping till at least 7 a.m. on a weekend.
I try to sleep longer, but usually Alex doesn’t let me. Other times, my body just wakes up by 7 because it thinks something is wrong, that I’ve overslept for work or hit “snooze” on my alarm about 5 times too many. Even this weekend I was hoping to sleep in a little. But we’ll likely be picking up the new car Saturday, plus I have to pick up a food club order at church. And Sunday morning is Race for the Cure, so that’s another early morning.
I guess it’s all just a part of growing up… but man do I miss sleeping in!
7 comments:
Amen to that! My kingdom for a nap!!
I miss it too! 7 am is as late as it gets on a Saturday. Now that the kids are 5 and 2, though, I can put cartoons on after breakfast and fall asleep on the couch while my husband is home. They don't even wake me up (much.)
I'm with ya on the sleeping in thing. Since when is 7:00 a.m. sleeping in? I ask myself this all the time. Adult life. Gotta love it.
Naps. Power naps. That's the answer. (A 7am sleep-in sounds right to me. I'm on a 5:15am wake-up-sans-alarm routine, too...) ;)
Oh, sleeping in was my biggest luxury until my last one was born. I could stay in bed until noon-1 and watch the Food Network with a big bowl of cereal.
Now, not so much. Sometimes I indulge and take a nap when he does. Those are the days!
Sleeping in is glorious!!! Hope you are able to get a morning or two of that soon.
I wish. I'm hoping sleeping in starts to happen when the kid hits 5 or 6? Maybe?
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