Are you a morning person? POLL

[Cammie]

I have been burning the candle at both ends lately and it is killing me! I am a morning person. Love to be in bed by 9 and up at 6. What about you?

[Mrs Mungo]

I'm a night owl. My *favorite* time to sleep is from 4 am until 10 am. However, I don't do that anymore. :tongue_smilie: I sleep from 11 pm or so until 6 am or so.

[Willow]

I'm a lark, I am normally up by 6am, and raring to go. Don't ask me to do anything after 8pm however, my brain shuts at that point and I am asleep by 10pm.

 

If I need more time I get up at 4 or 5 am rather than go on into the evening.

 

Willow.

[Rosie_0801]

Do I vote other?

 

If there was a "conflicted" option, I'd pick that. If I could sleep 10-7, I'd feel great, but my bod doesn't allow it. Too many times lately it has been 1am-6.30.

 

Rosie

[BabyBre]

I have been burning the candle at both ends lately and it is killing me! I am a morning person. Love to be in bed by 9 and up at 6. What about you?

 

 

That's me, too! There's nothing more satisfying than a 9:00 bedtime. Dh says birds sing when I wake up with a smile on my face at 5:00.

 

Make sure you're eating enough. Being awake and active longer requires more calories. Whenever I find that I'm conking out at 7:30 on the couch, I realize I haven't had enough calories lately.

[Dawn in OH]

I picked "other" for someplace in between.

I'm definitely NOT a morning person, although I have tried very hard to be one. And I don't really stay up all night (anymore at least).

 

I cannot make it to a 10AM or earlier appointment to save my life. And most of the homeschoolers near me want to do 10AM activities. I do much better with an afternoon activity, but the people with little ones need to be home by 1:30 for naps.

[Ibbygirl]

I'm naturally a night owl. Always have been. I start to wake up mentally around 8pm and I am my most alert and creative in the nighttime until the wee hours of the morning. I stay up late a lot, but I have to be up by 6am to get my son ready for the school bus so I wake up really early too.

[OnTheBrink]

I am NOT a morning person. Not not not not not not not! But, this week and next, I have to be at work at 8 am for training. Once that's over, I go to my regular shift in the evenings. This week and next are brutal, but it'll pass. I can't wait for it to pass!

[LauraGB]

I voted 'other'. I'm not a morning person, and I get tired by 11p. I prefer to put my jammies on by 9p, read til 11p, then somehow I end up sleeping til 830a. :confused: And when I do get up, it takes 2 cups of coffee and silence for about an hour if I plan to have a decent day.

 

(okay, I rarely have my pajamas on by 9; it is really just daily wishful thinking. But I am almost always sleeping shortly after 11)

 

ETA I am so not a morning person that I slept through an appt to be induced w/my twins, a knee surgery appt for my dog, and a business flight to Texas. Alarm clocks have never worked with me, no matter how hard I try or how badly I want them to. Stinks, actually. Very uncomfortable trying to explain.

Edited February 26, 2010 by LauraGB

[littleWMN]

Not at all!! I despise early mornings. Have tried so hard to change that but it's in my nature. Nothing better than a late night... until morning rolls around. :001_huh: ;)

[MamaT]

I voted other. I used to be a night owl, but I'm too tired these days to stay up past 10. I get up early so that I can have some time to myself and "wake up" before I get the kids up. It takes me about an hour and several cups of coffee before I can do anything other than growl in the morning.

[elegantlion]

The anguish of morning is only relieved by coffee (which dh makes) and the computer. I am lion like and will growl if anyone talks to me too soon.

 

I voted other because I'm not a night owl either. Since I was about age 10 my bedtime has been 10pm. I have a hard time staying up past that. I used to fall asleep if we were out past that.

 

I function best from about 9am to 2pm.

 

Thankfully ds is not a morning person. Dh however gets up before the break of dawn, at least he makes the coffee.

[Tree House Academy]

Nope...I am a late night person and unless morning comes sometime after 9am, I am not real happy about it. LOL Lucky for me, my kids (especially my older) are the same way (and when they do get up early, they tend to entertain themselves well!)

[fivetails]

Very much a morning person here :) ~ I'm usually up by 4am, sometimes by 3am.

[cathmom]

I am not a morning person either. My ideal would be to go to bed sometime between midnight and 1, and then get up between 8 and 9. If only the world would go by that schedule too!

[ereks mom]

I try to be in bed by 11:30-12:00 so I can be up around 7:30-8:00. I generally need around 8 hours of sleep, but can get by on 7 if I have to.

Edited February 26, 2010 by ereks mom

[Parrothead]

Nope, that is part of my insomnia problem. I am much more comfortable staying up late and sleeping during the day. But I want my dd to have a fairly normal childhood so I try to keep a day time routine.

[ereks mom]

I picked "other" for someplace in between.

I'm definitely NOT a morning person, although I have tried very hard to be one. And I don't really stay up all night (anymore at least).

 

I cannot make it to a 10AM or earlier appointment to save my life. And most of the homeschoolers near me want to do 10AM activities. I do much better with an afternoon activity, but the people with little ones need to be home by 1:30 for naps.

 

:iagree:

[missmoe]

I am a late night person, but have had to change my habits since I have two kids in school.

[SilverMoon]

I am so not a morning person. It appears every one of my children are however. :tongue_smilie:

[AlmiraGulch]

Very much a morning person here :) ~ I'm usually up by 4am, sometimes by 3am.

 

Same here, although not exactly by choice. I'm quite the insomniac, so I wake up with my brain in full gear in the middle of the night all the time, whether or not I've had a healthy amount of sleep.

 

That said, I really am extremely productive during those wee hours, but I do everything in my power not to schedule client meetings after 2:00 pm. My brain is noticably less functional then.

[Ibbygirl]

Very much a morning person here :) ~ I'm usually up by 4am, sometimes by 3am.

Wow!! :ohmy: That's usually when I go to bed! You're lucky! I wish I was a morning person by nature though. You get so much more accomplished during the morning hours. :)

[bbsweetpea]

I'm a night owl. My *favorite* time to sleep is from 4 am until 10 am. However, I don't do that anymore. :tongue_smilie:

 

This is me and luckily my kids normally allow it. The baby is a night person too and usually does not get up until 10 or 11. I am going to miss these days once the kids decide I need to get up earlier. I get so much done after 11 at night.

Edited February 26, 2010 by bbsweetpea

[Needleroozer]

I voted other. If I had my way, I'd sleep from 9 to 9. No kidding. Have always needed tons of sleep. I am getting to bed by 10 at the latest, and getting up at 6, to do before school care for the Neighbor Boy. I hate being up that early. I know the birds are singing, it is quiet, etc. but I would just so rather be sleeping! I have been doing this all school year, and it still is killing me.

 

I used to stock up on sleep on the weekends, but am now working on those days, so have to be up early then too. Need. more. sleep!!

[Laurel]

I am useless after noon or 1, so to get anything productive done during the day, I need to get up early. So I get up at 5. I love the feeling of having accomplished so much when it's still early morning. (The downside being that if I have had a lazy morning, there come the realization in the early afternoon that the entire day will be a bust.)

 

Even though I was a night-owl growing up, I was never one for sleeping in. I hate waking up and feeling like half the day is already gone.

[elise1mds]

I *have* to burn the candle at both ends because I can't sleep before midnight at all and have to get up early to get the girly to school by 8. I love being a night owl, though. In fact, I work nights and usually don't get done till sometime around 11. (I'm taking a quick break now.) Then I do my chores and head that direction. If I had my way, I'd go to bed about 2 a.m., but I'm just not human after a few days of that and getting up at 6:48 (which is 6:30 plus two hits of the snooze button :D).

[gemrae]

In bed by 8 or 9 and up by 3:30 or 4:30. Love my mornings!!

[ncmomo3]

I prefer to be up by 5:30, lately it runs closer to 6. I'm in bed around 11:30 or 12. I wish I could get by on less sleep. It has always seemed like a great waste of time:lol:

[bookfiend]

I wake up early, but get going SLOOOW!

[Pam L in Mid Tenn]

I have several health problems and need a lot more rest than most people. I'm usually in bed about 9 pm, watch tv or read until 10, and then sleep until I wake up. Usually around 7:30 am.

 

No, I don't get everything done. :)

[runamuk]

I'm a night owl and fortunately the two kids left at home are not morning people, either. We usually sleep in until 8am (and after years of getting up at 5:30 am, anything past 7am is sleeping in). The kids are in bed with lights out no later than 9pm, but I'm often up until midnight or 1am. I love my quiet time.