Everyone that knows me knows that I am NOT, in any way or form, a morning person! I like to sleep till the sun is peering through my window around 8ish. But being a mommy means we have to adapt, right? With an ADHD child (well two actually, but this is only about one :-) you definitely have to reevaluate what's worth fighting and what you just have to embrace as your new normal. My little boy, my snuggly, cuddly, sweet little boy seems to really like the night before daylight! He wakes up around 5:30-5:45 every, I repeat every, morning. For awhile, we'd just try to get him back to sleep...but for him once he's awake he's going at full speed until he crashes about 9pm. Yes, we moved his bed time back to 9pm to try to get him to sleep longer....no go! He seems to function quite well on less than 9 hours of sleep. So what do you do if you can't get them back to sleep and due to his impulse control, or actually lack of impulse control, and you have 2 other kids that need way more sleep?? You learn to embrace the darkness, that's what you do!! You pop out of bed as soon as you hear your little munchkin creeping (not so quietly I may add) down the hallway. You figure out that your Keurig needs to come on a few hours early than you had it set for and you embrace the darkness. You start realizing how much you can get done in the mornings before having to shuffle kids to school and appointments, and you also realize that 6am is too early for most of your crockpot meals, unless you want to eat at 3pm. You realize that the dishwasher isn't as loud as you first thought and that the other two can sleep right through many household songs. You realize that you enjoy sitting on the back porch in the crisp cool fall air snuggling with a 7 year old boy that still likes to be snuggled (most of the time). You realize that you can whip out a discussion board post in less than half the time that it takes if you try it at 5pm. It's amazing the things you realize at 5:30 in the morning while embracing the darkness and entertaining your youngest, most sweetest son! And you realize this over the course of months, mostly summer months where you have no where to be early. And once you realize all this and your body is awake around 5am every single day....weekends included....your sweet, funny, loving son will decide to sleep till nearly 7 am EVERY SINGLE MORNING FOR OVER A WEEK!!!! And one morning when you're up at 5am wondering why you're up at 5am you'll decided to blog again after 3 years of not blogging!! God sure had a funny way of making me a morning person! :-) And as I write this, it is 6:35am, I've been up since 5:05am, and am on my second cup of coffee....and Kyle is still snoring quietly in his bed! Love that boy!!!
