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ByI am very much a morning person.
That doesn’t mean I love getting up super early necessarily…it just means I function so much better in the mornings and can get a ton of things done in the mornings. By mid afternoon, I’m starting to get tired…and by 10 pm I can hardly complete a sentence.
Matt is very much a night owl, which sometimes makes life interesting…since he can complete sentences after 10:00 and I can’t. Oh, you should hear some of our conversations. They’re very productive. As are the conversations we have at 7 am.
So how ’bout you? Are you a morning person, or a night owl? When are you the most productive? Can you hold a coherent conversation after 10 pm?
I am definitely a night owl. I love staying up late reading, planning, doing little things around the house…especially when everyone else is in bed. This morning, my birthday, I was sure my family would understand my sleeping in. They did…until 9 am. They thought that was so late and really wanted me up with them. Yikes! My husband can’t sleep in so he’s up early whether he wants to be or not. I’ve allowed myself to indulge lots so far this summer (staying up late and sleeping in) but realize this should soon come to an end. It is helpful for me to awake earlier (I did not say EARLY just EARLIER) as I like accomplishing lots before noon. I guess I can’t have my cake and eat it too – even on my birthday:)
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I can function in the morning, especially when I have to on work days. But I’m most productive from about 8 p.m. to midnight. That’s when my daughter’s in bed, and hubby and I can get a few things done around the house. I do start to crash around 11:30 though!
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I am very much a morning person. I am quite like you…I just function better in the morning. By afternoon, if I don’t have it going, it’s not gonna get done, and I am a zombie by 9, though I stay up til my hubby wants to go to bed!
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This is great Laura. I got up at 4am this morning. I can get so much done early in the morning. My family says that I turn into a pumpkin at 8 p.m. In the winter when the sun goes down my body says night night!
So, no intelligent conversations from this gal after 8. LOL
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I’m with you! Mornings are best for me. I only wish the family wasn’t asleep so I could vacuum before dawn and the neighbors didn’t complain so I could mow the lawn before 8am!
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I am totally a morning person. I am the one who plans breakfast play dates and has the everyone come in their jammies, so the other moms can just get up and go. My kids are the same way, so I HAVE to get up anyways.
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I am a morning person. I write inspirational romances and have a tween girl and two little boys (3 & 1). The only time I can write is early morning, so I get up at 5:00. I’ve tried to do it after everyone is in bed, but I’m incapable of forming not only coherent sentences, but also coherent thoughts. My 10PM, my eyes twitch.
My husband is not only a night owl, but an insomniac. He’ll go to bed with me and later get up and stay up. Oftentimes, our paths cross at 5AM. Unlike me at night, though, he can function early morning.
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1,000% morning person. I’m asleep by 10 pm lol. But I’m up between 4 and 5 am, M-F, and by 6 on Saturdays and Sundays. I feel unaccomplished if I sleep later on the weekends! Naps are a wonderful thing, but make the days go too fast.
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I’m a night owl (it’s genetic I’m convinced :) but I’m learning to love getting up in the morning thanks to the fact that the only time I can find to weed my garden is a 6AM! Since my children stay up late chatting in their room, they aren’t awake then and I love the peaceful morning time when I can both accomplish an important task AND more importantly spend time with the Lord.
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I get much more done in the morning when I first get up, those first few hours are my most productive. I also get really sleepy in the afternoon. I sometimes manage a nap, and then I usually can stay up pretty late. I usually go to bed around 11:30 or 12, but I don’t wake up in the morning until 8:30 or 9. I wish I had more discipline to get up early and go to bed early. I wake when my kids wake. It would be a good thing to get up before them and get some prayer and quiet time in. I will have to work on that.
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I get tired between 9:30 and 10pm, but if I stay up, I catch my second wind about 11 and can easily go until 2am! However, with the normal schedule, I usually get up about 6am – and get lots done – and hit the hay by 9:30.
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Absolutely a morning person! I get so much done between the hours of 8am to noon. If my chores aren’t finished by noon, they wait until the next day. I like to “relax” (do we moms ever really relax?) in the afternoon and be in bed by 11pm.
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I am definitely a morning person. This causes some problems with my hubby who is a night owl. He will stay up till 1 am at times and sometimes wakes me up. He thinks the kids are like him and needing little sleep so they don’t get the sleep they need. Sometimes that makes for a cranky mommy also.
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I have to say that I am a morning person. I am very produtive in the am. I can’t complete sentences at any givin time.
Ezzy
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If mornings started at 9 then I’d be a morning person!! I’d like to stay up late and sleep late. Unfortunately my kids are early risers. Right now I have no choice but to get up early. Someday I will have my revenge, like when they’re teenagers and want to sleep in!! Hehehe!!
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I am a morning person, too. You said it just right… I handle all of my current projects, chores, and conversations before 6pm. I call it my “witching” hour… I hope that’s okay to say :) After 6pm I tend to become cranky, tired, and incoherent. Well said, Laura, and thanks for sharing your heart!
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I am a morning person! After about 2 in the afternoon I am dragging. The only conversation my hubby and I have after 10 is him trying to wake me up from the couch to come to bed. I fall asleep every night now watching TV. I am only 36, but it’s like I’m an old man who falls asleep whenever he sits down.
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Danielle Reply:
July 13th, 2009 at 3:24 am
I say my brain stops functioning around 2, lol. Which is a bad thing when you work outside of the home. BUT I get to work at 630, so I have all morning to be productive!
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I love mornings…quiet new days with hot coffee in my favorite mug. Snuggling with the kids in our PJs. I like to enjoy the mornings until about 9am, then do chores and responsibilities until about 2pm or 3 pm. We all rest and take a break in the afternoon before I start supper. We love evenings when daddy is home and we all snuggle and play. The kids go to bed around 8pm. Hubby and I enjoy time together for a couple of hours. I usually like to spend about 45 minutes in the late evening taking a bubble bath and reading all by myself. I like to be in bed around 11pm. Hubby usually stays up way later than me…he is a night-owl for sure! It works for us, though!
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I’m a morning person out of practicality, not nature. Like you, I function so much better when I wake up early and get things done before the kids wake up. If I wake up right as they do and have to rush around in the morning, I’m not a very happy person.
The only problems occur when we get together with my husband’s brother and his wife…they are definitely night-owls. They always want to get together and socialize at night when all of our kids go to bed, but we start going into sleep mode around 9:30, which makes them very frustrated!
In college, I was a total night-owl. I would sleep until 9am and stay up until 3am writing papers. I loved doing my work late at night. Maybe someday when the kids are grown I’ll get to be a night owl again. :)
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Me and Hubs are both total night owls. Him moreso than me because he’s worked the graveyard shift for as long as I’ve known him. We have our most intelligent conversations around 10pm. I usually hit the sheets around 11pm.
Thankfully the girls aren’t morning people either. It must be an inherited trait!
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