If you are an Early Riser, what does that mean to you?

[Ginevra]

Pretty self-explanatory question, there. :001_smile: If you describe yourself as an Early Riser, what time do you most or all of the time awaken?

Poll following.

[gardening momma]

This is like those polls where you have to include an 'other.' I'm not an early riser, but have to answer anyway.

 

If I get up "early," that means anytime before 9 a.m. :D

[Tap]

If I got up before 6:15, I would consider myself an early riser. I get up by 7 on most days.

Edited April 26, 2012 by Tap, tap, tap

[JudoMom]

I usually get up about 4:45.

[Bang!Zoom!]

4:30 here- bed is at 8:00 for everyone else...I usually stay up a little bit later for my own personal catch up stuff.

[Annie G]

Generally wake around 5:30 but don't get out of bed until 6.

My kids are teens- no real need for me to get up early since they're not standing at the foot of my bed asking for breakfast.

Dh gets up by 4:30, ds is up by 7, and dd is up....around 9. Nobody uses alarm clocks around here unless it's been a really late night and we need to be up especially early.

[Jean in Newcastle]

I get up around 8 am but I don't consider myself an early riser. Perhaps that is because in an earlier life you had to be at work by 8 am?

[ms. pacman]

Whenever the baby wakes! These days, it's usually a little before 7. We hang out while I drink a cup of coffee and await the herd :)

[nukeswife]

This is like those polls where you have to include an 'other.' I'm not an early riser, but have to answer anyway.

 

If I get up "early," that means anytime before 9 a.m. :D

 

:iagree:

[justamouse]

This is like those polls where you have to include an 'other.' I'm not an early riser, but have to answer anyway.

 

If I get up "early," that means anytime before 9 a.m. :D

:iagree:

 

I'm up by 7. I hate it, and I consider that early.

[justamouse]

4:30 here-

 

 

That is so, so wrong. Wrong.

 

The only people that should be up before the sun are cops and robbers.

 

 

;)

[REv1053]

I feel best when I am up between 5:30-6:00. But I have a baby under 1yo, so I havent been getting a lot of sleep at night. Now I am waking up around 6:30-7:00 which makes me feel like the morning is ruined.

[MamaT]

The alarm goes off at 5:00, but it's usually 5:30 before I actually crawl out of bed.

[Pamela H in Texas]

I don't usually think about it, but I'd guess I'm an early riser. My alarm is set for 5:50. I usually get up between 5:15 and 5:30.

[ereks mom]

Anything earlier than 7:00 is early to me.

[ocelotmom]

Um, by choice or by force? :)

 

Baby has been waking me at the crack of dawn, and the crack of dawn is getting earlier and earlier. And 3 days a week I'm up at 4:50 for work.

 

By choice, it would probably be closer to 7:00.

[Colleen]

This poll cracks me up. Sorry, folks, but "any time before 9 a.m." does not qualify as "early".:D I'm up at 7 a.m. or so (nope, that's not early) in midst of winter. I wake up whether or I want to or not by 5-ish when the sun is up at that hour. Given that I don't go the bed until 2 a.m. on average, I'd often not rather be up a few hours later. But those early morning hours can be great for a run or bike ride, I'm living proof that we don't need as much sleep as we think we do.;)

[Guest]

Um, by choice or by force? :)

 

Baby has been waking me at the crack of dawn, and the crack of dawn is getting earlier and earlier. And 3 days a week I'm up at 4:50 for work.

 

By choice, it would probably be closer to 7:00.

 

Yeah, well, there's that. ;) I suppose I mean by choice.

[Guest]

I get up around 8 am but I don't consider myself an early riser. Perhaps that is because in an earlier life you had to be at work by 8 am?

 

I don't consider 8-wakers to be "early risers," but I was allowing for variation in what people think is early. :001_smile:

 

In an earlier life, I got up at 5:30 and I popped out of bed the instant my alarm went off, if not before. I find it very interesting that in my SAHM years, I have de-conditioned myself to responding to the alarm and now I rarely hear dh's alarm when it goes off at 5:35. I'm just not conditioned to wake up to it anymore. But I'm also working on some new habits, so I think I am going to recondition myself to hear the alarm and get up then.

[AHASRADA]

I'm an early riser because I get up before the rest of my family, so it's all relative. I would say I like to get up between 6:30 and 7. Everyone else prefers 9.

 

I am also the first to go to bed. Dh is a night person; I'm a morning person. Whether I rise that early or not, I prefer to wake up early in order to accomplish things. Staying up late? Forget it!

[gardening momma]

This poll cracks me up. Sorry, folks, but "any time before 9 a.m." does not qualify as "early".:D I'm up at 7 a.m. or so (nope, that's not early) in midst of winter. I wake up whether or I want to or not by 5-ish when the sun is up at that hour. Given that I don't go the bed until 2 a.m. on average, I'd often not rather be up a few hours later. But those early morning hours can be great for a run or bike ride, I'm living proof that we don't need as much sleep as we think we do.;)

Ha. That's a nap! :001_smile: