Night owls

anna7602 · July 2011

Is reform possible? For most of my life, whenever I've had to push to get anything major done- study for exams, write grad school papers, meet freelance deadlines- I had my most productive hours between about 10pm and 4am. When DD was first born, this still kind of worked because her sleeping hours were so erratic, but I ended up practically going nuts after months and months of not sleeping for more than 2-3 hours at a time.

For the last year or so, I have tried to be so diligent about going to bed early and waking up at 5 or 6 to do work, but I just can't get as much of my own work done during the day as I can at night, even with DD at camp or school. There's always a plumber who has to be called or a meeting with a potential client or something that makes it hard to work uninterrrupted the way I do at night.

Anyone wanna commiserate and help me embrace it or offer tips for reform?

BFab11 · July 2011

I'm no help. I'm the same way, and DH works 2 pm to midnight, so we're on a later sleep schedule. DS usually goes down around 12 and wakes up around 9 (might be a wake up or two in between), and it works for us. I've never been an early morning person.

Mrs. TLC · July 2011

opened this thread totally thinking it was about the didy wrap. LOL

when i was in college, my classes weren't until 10 or 11 in the morning, so we'd stay up until 3am regularly.... i was a TOTAL night owl...

i still move at a snails pace in the mornings, and without an alarm (or DS) to wake me, could easily sleep past 9 or 10am. Obviously not possible with DS waking up at 730 every morning...he's a night owl too, i can't get him to sleep before 11pm most nights

Tonya_G · July 2011

I'm exactly the same. I wish my job was on my hours... lol

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