Mendolonium

Some of my clearest memories of my grade school years are of lying in bed reading myself to sleep.  I loved the dark, still, quiet solitude of being the only one awake in the house.  I still do.  I was probably born a night owl and Thomas is almost assuredly one as well.

That said, I am one tired owl these days.  A couple of years ago I could stay up until the wee hours of the morning reading or cooking and compensate by sleeping in on the weekends.  Despite Thomas’ relatively late rising time compared to other toddlers there really is no sleeping in with him.  He also co-sleeps with me from about 5:00 am until he wakes up so my sleep from 5:00 am on is, shall we say, rather compromised.

Therefore, I am resolving to go to bed earlier.  For me this means in bed by 11:00 pm.  I am sure this sounds laughably late to some of you, but in a world with no one else around I would probably tend towards going to bed around 2:00 am.  I also realized that this has the added benefit of saving electricity and heating energy (in the winter) as well.  Not only will I be in bed, but it will be TVs and computers powered down, lights out, and heaters off by 11:00 pm.

This isn’t too say that I won’t occasionally stay up until 2:00 in the morning engrossed in a book or baking a cake, I just want to make it a treat rather than the rule.

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