It is so crazy to think that when I was young, a hard-core athlete, I really didn’t read much.   I mean I guess a lot of young people don’t read a lot…. My mom and brother always LOVED to read.    I was almost jealous of their love for it.   I wanted to enjoy it I really did, but it just wasn’t my thing.     I wanted to be social learning about life through living it.   Every minute of my day was playing sports or talking to friends.    Staying up LATE, and sleeping in when I could.

So funny how adulthood changes everything.   Now I love to read, and I’m most productive in the mornings.    So realizing how I have changed and adapted…. and accepted this crazy fact that I would rather be in bed with a book than at a cocktail party;  it is time to make a little workflow change.

When summer started I thought…. How great would it be to go to bed early with Mark every night!!?   Well when I kept getting behind on work and I really needed that work time from 8-10:30… going to bed late meant running around like a crazy person in the morning when Gracie and the Dogs wake up all at the same time, everyone needing two things NOW… FOOD AND BATHROOM!!!!   So having 3 mouths to feed, diaper change, dogs going outside then barking like crazy when I’m not fast enough letting them inside….. enough is enough!    LOL.. can you tell I hate that 20 minutes of every morning?   Because I get no trip to the bathroom, breakfast, or coffee until all that is done.      Not that 20 minutes is the end of the world, life is all good once they are settled…. but the one time I woke up before Gracie I realized how much easier it could be.

ALSO I’m a firm believer in husband and wife going to bed at the same time.    I always have been.   Even if I’m awake reading, just being next to Mark and that quick conversation before bed, is always nice.    All feels right in the world when we go to bed at the same time.   I hated running to my office at night when I could be getting some baby-free hang out time with him.    He works at 3 A.M. by the way, so he is long gone with the sun rises…. but Gracie and I love the he is home at a decent time in the afternoon!