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May. 20th, 2004 10:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sierciaSo, as you mostly know, in September, Ms. Widget is going to be starting preschool. With this change, I'm going to be moving from a laid back morning scedule (where we sleep in until 8 or 8:30, fetch Imagy at 9:15, eat breakfast together, leaving me with about an hour to work / shower / housework / whatever before leaving for work to get there at 11:00) to a morning schedule where we have to be up, dressed, breakfasted and out the door by 8:15 at the latest.
My evenings will change from Wiley relieving Imagy at 6:30ish (coming home to an already fed Widget), my arriving between 7:15 and 7:30, Widget playtime until 8, Widget bedtime from 8-8:30 THEN cooking dinner (usually eating around 9) to one where I will likely be relieving Imagy around 5:30, cooking family dinner, putting the Widget to bed around 7-7:30, then having the evening to myself.
Now, no one in my family is a morning person. I mean, we have a 3 year old who sleeps til 8 or 8:30 regularly! I am dreading this change in everything (sleeping, meals, work schedule, you name it).
Do any of you lovely ladies have suggestions for things I can do to make this transition easier? Any particular aspects of a morning or evening routine that will help me deal with mornings when I am NOT equipped for that?
I'm thinking of trying to start transitioning within a few weeks; start by trying to at least wake myself up by 7:30 in the morning (even if I don't wake Widget to start) to start conditioning myself to the new hours. Then start getting Widget up earlier so we can work towards getting her sleep schedule shifted as well.
I realize that this is a normal morning for most people (I've just been lucky with my schedule so far), so I'm hoping someone's got some suggestions to make this a little less painful.
My evenings will change from Wiley relieving Imagy at 6:30ish (coming home to an already fed Widget), my arriving between 7:15 and 7:30, Widget playtime until 8, Widget bedtime from 8-8:30 THEN cooking dinner (usually eating around 9) to one where I will likely be relieving Imagy around 5:30, cooking family dinner, putting the Widget to bed around 7-7:30, then having the evening to myself.
Now, no one in my family is a morning person. I mean, we have a 3 year old who sleeps til 8 or 8:30 regularly! I am dreading this change in everything (sleeping, meals, work schedule, you name it).
Do any of you lovely ladies have suggestions for things I can do to make this transition easier? Any particular aspects of a morning or evening routine that will help me deal with mornings when I am NOT equipped for that?
I'm thinking of trying to start transitioning within a few weeks; start by trying to at least wake myself up by 7:30 in the morning (even if I don't wake Widget to start) to start conditioning myself to the new hours. Then start getting Widget up earlier so we can work towards getting her sleep schedule shifted as well.
I realize that this is a normal morning for most people (I've just been lucky with my schedule so far), so I'm hoping someone's got some suggestions to make this a little less painful.