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  1. I would choose a cruise, but we go to Disneyland twice a year and I've never been on a cruise. Your kids are good ages for Disney. I think all would have more fun at Disney and save a cruise for when they are older or you and DH can go sans kids. If you're going to DW vs DL, I think I would prioritize which parks would be most enjoyable for your family. We went to DW for the first time last year and we tried to do All The Things and it felt very rushed and overwhelming. I think we all would have appreciated more time in fewer locations.
  2. This game on kickstarter has only a couple days left. I've played it a few times and we always have a great time! It's not hard-core gaming, but it is light and fun, good for a family game night or an evening of games with friends. I'm sharing it here because I know a lot here are into games and I want this to make goal! Squatch Disclaimer: I do know one of the creators of this game, but I gain nothing personally by you backing besides it getting to goal so I get the game! :)
  3. Huh. I had no idea. I just went through a bunch of text conversations on my phone to check for this. DH never uses a period at the end of a text, but he's the type to always keep it as simple as possible. One friend often leaves off the last period even if she punctuated throughout. I'd never noticed. The other friend I primarily text with fully punctuates like I do. So does that mean friend who leaves it off perceives my fully punctuated texts as being rude or short? Or does this not really apply since it's someone I text with frequently, so she should have figured out by now that I always use proper punctuation? My SIL hardly uses any punctuation at all, I must be being downright rude to her. :/ I'm not sure what to make of this. On the one hand I completely see the point that tone must be conveyed somehow and that different communication formats will have different rules. But on the other hand, I have a hard time with intentionally writing incorrectly. It bugs me if I notice a typo or grammar error in a text, even if it's just a casual conversation with a friend.
  4. This is a brilliant idea! Thank you! I will ask DH this evening if he would be willing to do this.
  5. I wish I was this way! I hate having to be anywhere in the morning! It makes me super anxious the night before and I have to set several alarms. The only times it has helped me is if it's something really important and I notice the time as I'm turning off an alarm (often times I don't even remember turning them off) and we're running late. The sudden adrenaline from fear of being late for something important can get me moving but then I have a bad headache the rest of the day. I'm really worried about co-op this term. Last term we started at 10 but they moved it to 9 for this term. I have to be there on time as I'm being counted on as one of the main preschool teachers. And the most looked forward to class for both kids is, of course, first hour. I love our co-op so I'm excited for it to start back up, but I'm also quite anxious about the time.
  6. This is the brand I drink! :w00t: I see my GP next week anyway for a med check so I plan on bringing this up and seeing if he can refer me to a specialist. I'll also google the things you mentioned in your next post. I've wondered for a long time if there's something more to it than simply being a night owl who doesn't like mornings. There have been many mornings that I find myself in tears trying to get up. But then I think I'm just overreacting and I'm just lazy. I go back and forth between crying and beating myself up. Good to know, thank you. I'll look into this, too.
  7. I'm at the opposite end trying to find ways to DEhumidify the air in our house! We live in Utah so it's dry, but we need to keep the humidity down for DD. She has an allergy to dust mites and the allergist told us to keep our humidity low to keep their breeding at bay. The dry skin is a pain but it's worth it for her to not be sick all the time.
  8. Haha, yes, it is quite beautiful here. I do tend to take that for granted sometimes. I do love the mountains and the hiking/camping opportunities. But my sensory-issues self really hates the winter and summer temps!
  9. This sounds so much more doable. Thank you. So much this! I have a hard time waking up regardless, but getting more sleep in would make the day go smoother and I wouldn't feel quite as resentful about the getting up!
  10. 8:30 does sound a lot more doable, other than co-op day. In theory I don't like for them to watch a show on school mornings, but in reality I'm not up yet so I end up letting them. After reading the instructions I wondered about this because it instructed eyes open. I'm glad to hear it will still help some with eyes closed so I can use it as I'm waking. We don't have a tv in our room. I suppose I could use my laptop. I would really rather have this time at night though. Honestly if I'm awake enough to watch a show or read a book, I'd rather just get up and start my day. It just takes me so long to get to this point in the first place. It's not just grogginess after waking for the first hour, it's that I can't even keep my eyes open and drift off easily. I do have a short period of time where I am awake but play on my phone to get my brain going, so I could watch a show for this part instead of my phone, but I try to keep this to about 20 minutes, so a show might just make me stay in bed longer! We have slat style blinds, so they are pretty good at blocking out light. Too many lights and things on our street to keep them open at night. But I could start asking my kids to open them for me when they come in. I guess I just feel like I should since my kids get up then and I want us to have a productive morning and start school at a reasonable hour. I'm always beating myself up for being lazy. :/ That's awesome. I'll definitely consider this. Definitely not enough right now. I HATE cold and we live in Utah. I don't spend a lot of time outside in the winter. I keep thinking we should but then another day will go by when I haven't. Some days I don't step foot outside. Not as bad, but yes. I get uncomfortable faster since tents get HOT once the sun is up for a bit. So it's probably about 9 when I get up due to sheer discomfort. If I sleep in my mom's trailer it's a lot harder but my anxiety over being in their way helps.
  11. I don't know if I can do this. :crying: Just being honest. I see the wisdom in all of this and understand why, but I really don't know if I am capable. I *want* to be able to get up at 7, but I'm not sure I want it enough to have the willpower to follow through on all of this. I will have to think on this for a bit and figure out my priorities. Thank you for taking the time to help!!
  12. I had to look this up! It looks like there are a few models of teasmade or similar on amazon. Too bad we're on this side of Christmas, I could have asked for one. It might be a bit before we could get something like this but I'm keeping my eye on it.
  13. That looks really good but unfortunately out of our price range right now. But I'm going to keep it in mind for if I'm still struggling after everything else. I might put it by my bed but it doesn't have a timer. So I'll have to switch it on myself if I go that route. I'm bad with electronics in bed! I always play on my phone before lying down. That's on the list of changes to make. The caffeine and exercise are definite areas to work on, too. I have de-caffeinated earl gray if it's late, but I often have caffeine up to about 6:00. Melatonin seems to make it even harder for me to wake up, but it seems I may be taking it much too late. When I've tried it I take it as I'm taking my other bedtime med, so maybe I need to try taking it earlier.
  14. It's not AS hard, but still quite difficult. I still find myself waking, drifting, waking... And I still find it just as hard to do the actual getting up part, even if I'm awake. When DH and the kids last left me for a weekend I was going to bed around 3 and waking slowly around 11. They've actually left me for the weekend a few times and once I didn't wake up until 1pm. Does snoring always accompany sleep apnea? I've always kind of ruled this out since I don't snore. But I guess I've never looked into if it's possible to be present without the snoring.
  15. Thank you for all of your ideas. TBH, I am nearly crying thinking of no snooze, immediate up, before 7:30. :crying: It honestly sounds so overwhelmingly difficult. I'll have to look into a Keurig. I didn't know it could be used without the k-cups. I have my specific tea I like ;) I'm not into herbal stuff that they're more likely to have things for. I just like English breakfast tea. I'm at a loss thinking of something to look forward to in the morning. Morning and pleasure just don't go together in my mind :/ I guess maybe a book along with my tea sounds nice. Or it would if we weren't talking about 7am. So if I'm looking at 7am wake up then I would be going to bed at 11. So would screen be okay until 10? Watching a show on netflix after the kids go down is how I unwind. I'm big into geek tv and never have tv time during the day. I need that time, even if I have to drop to 1 episode a night instead of my usual 2 (or 3 or 4 :o ). Then I could read or do other non-screen things for another hour before going to bed. Is this reasonable?
  16. I drink hot tea in the morning and I've often wished I could have a machine just like a coffee machine by my bed that could be set so I have a mug of tea waiting for me when my alarm goes off. Alas, tea is more fiddly than coffee! I can see the morning soda becoming a bad habit health-wise! As of now I don't really like the taste of soda before lunch but I'm sure I could get used to it if I started this! Re the bolded.... YES!
  17. I had a 7:00am job for 7 years and I found it just as hard to get up on my last day there as I did on my first. So unless I was missing something, the habit doesn't make it any easier on me. I am horrible about exercise. As in I never, ever do it. :o Before 6pm, though? The only time I've even thought I might exercise though I haven't made myself yet is around 10 after everyone else is in bed. :/
  18. My mom just got me a lightbox for Christmas and I have to admit to it getting shoved in a corner with a lot of Christmas mess and forgotten about! I will get that out tonight to try in the morning. Would I use it next to the bed to get me going, or downstairs for after I am up?
  19. My natural sleep-wake cycle would be 2/3am - 10/11am. I have to fight hard to get to bed before 1am but I can usually make myself get there by 12. Waking up is SO HARD for me. It always has been. I was the kid getting yelled at constantly to get up. I was the teen regularly missing my bus. Whether it is 7 am or 10 am, whether I've had 5 hours sleep or 8 hours of sleep, I struggle to wake. Sometimes I honestly think I don't produce the wake-up hormone. I have to set 4-5 alarms 10-15 minutes apart in order to get up if we have to be somewhere by 9 or earlier. Most mornings go like this: Kids come in around 7:30-8:00 and wake me up. They ask if they can watch MLP and I say yes and fall back to sleep. They occupy themselves well for a while and come back in some time around 8:30/9:00. I struggle to wake up enough to interact with them. They often wake me several times over the next half an hour as they play on the bed and I keep falling back to sleep. I finally feel conscious enough to tell them to get some breakfast and I grab my phone. I play on my phone to wake up. I know this isn't a great habit as I'm just still laying in bed, but it forces my brain to start working. It makes me keep my eyes open so I stop falling back asleep. I do still sometimes drift off again even with lights on, fan off, phone in hand. If I am able to force my legs out of bed, I often find myself lying back down again with no memory of deciding to lay back down. But most of the time my legs feel like lead. I feel more tired than I did the night before when I went to bed. Every inch of me feels exhausted and the bed is just so comfortable (which it is not at night or through the night. I do not feel comfortable until around 5/6am. I toss and turn a lot before that). It feels like it's supposed to be time to go to sleep, not wake up. I just CANT GET MOVING. It's usually close to 10 before I am up. Anyone BTDT? I keep telling myself to just adult-up and get up. But it's easier said than done. I just don't know what to do anymore to make myself able to get moving. *FTR, a few months back I forced myself to go to bed at 10:30 every night for about 6 weeks. There was zero change with my ability to wake up in the morning.
  20. Yes, I would. These are adults that clearly spend nights together when not at home. So even if I had something against premarital relations (which I don't), it's not like saying no prevents that. I would much rather keep open communication with my kids and make sure they always feel comfortable coming back home. I'm not going to make a pointless rule that would encourage them to stay away.
  21. We use RSO and love it. It's completely secular. You could do the reading and read any extra books away from home. Labs away from home would probably vary a lot based on level/unit, where you'll be, and how much you're willing to prep ahead and pack along.
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