So if you are an early riser

[mamapjama]

What time do you go to bed? In the thread about the alarm clock there were quite a few very early risers. I'm naturally a night bird and even when I did work outside the home, I hit snooze until the very last minute.

 

But I'm wide awake until after 12 every night.

 

What time do you go to bed if you are up by 6 or earlier?

[Blue Hen]

Last night I went to bed at 11:30pm and was up at 5am, heading off to the Y.

 

Normally I go to be between 10:30 and 11:30pm and am up at 5am every morning except Sunday. On Sunday's I get to sleep late, until 6:30am when I get up and run my boys to their inline speed skating practice that starts at 7:30am.

[Happy]

I'm in bed by ten. I like catching the weather and the first part of Jay Leno as I wind down. I actually DVR Leno so I can watch it a day later but earlier--right after the weather at 10:18. :D

 

This morning I was up at 4:30 am. I predict I won't make it through the weather tonight.

[laylamcb]

I'm naturally a night person, too--I feel like I do my best thinking in the wee hours. But I've had to change that because DH must be at work by 6 AM. So he's up at 4:30 (!!!) every workday. No option there. So over the years, I've become a morning person--not in my soul, but in my behavior, IYKWIM. So I really need to be in bed before 10, and sometimes when I get run down I'll try to get in bed by 9. It's tough, especially in the summer! My kids are in bed between 7-8.

[daisychics]

I wake up, (dc wakes me up) at 6:30am and we all hang out with dh in the morning before he heads out the door. I go to sleep between 11:30-1:00am, yah. Last night, I went to sleep at 1:00am. I also have (i think) restless leg syndrome, so it takes me a while to sleep.

 

love COFFEE!

[Desert Rat]

I'm usually in bed by 10.

[VaKim]

In bed by 8 (sometimes not until 9 in the summer and as early as 6:30 in the winter) and up at 4. I am definitely a morning person, and am actually winding down by early afternoon.:)

[Colleen]

I go to bed anywhere from 1 a.m. to, um, much later.:D In the summer it's not unusual for me to be up by 6 a.m. I don't need much sleep.

[kristavws]

I get up at 6 am; I generally go to bed between 11 and midnight. I am fairly high energy, and do not require a tremendous amount of sleep.

 

Krista

[gandpsmommy]

Dh has to be at work at 7:00 and has an hour commute. So I get up at 5:15. I would love to be in bed by 9:00 every evening, but that rarely happens. Usually I go to bed around 10:00. 11:00 is getting really late for me. I have stayed up until 1:00 or 2:00 a few times lately, but just because I had a lot of extra stuff to do and I could finally work on it after the kids went to bed. I get really grumpy if I don't get enough sleep!

[Scarlett]

I get up at 5:30 everyday. I usually get to bed between 10:00 and 11:00.

[Alice]

I get up at 5 am. I really need 8 hours a night so usually I'm in bed by 9 and asleep by 10.

 

I'm naturally a night-owl but I've adjusted the past 5 yrs. I go into the hospital everyday to see patients. It's a time that I can easily work while dh is home and it works great for us as a family. It was tough at first but now I'm so used to it I hardly ever sleep past 7 am even on vacation.

[Marie in Oh]

and am up by 6:15 or so.

[Guest]

I try to be heading to bed around 9ish and read/relax for about an hour. I have a hard time falling asleep, so I try and wind down and hopefully am asleep by 10. I get up about 5ish in the morning.

[momofkhm]

about 10:30. Usually it's closer to 10. Then I've been waking up, no alarm, between 5 and 5:30.

[Pajama Mama]

I've always needed alot of sleep. I need at least 6 hrs but 8 would be better. When school starts, I need to start going to bed early again...grrr... My special needs child goes to school early. I need to feed him and get him ready before the bus arrives. When he first started going to school, I had to get up at 5. Now that I've gotten my routine down pat, I need to get up at 6. I can't go to bed before 11 on any given night usually closer to midnight. I have to feed ds at night via a machine after he falls asleep. I go to sleep when he's done. I sleep in on weekends during the fall because I feel so sleep deprived during the week. By wintertime, I start looking forward to summer again when I can sleep later.

[mellifera]

I'm (usually) in bed somewhere around 9 or 10 p.m. and get up somewhere around 5 or 6 a.m. I try to sleep in on Saturdays, but the cats don't often let me sleep much past 6 a.m.:glare:

[Peela]

10pm is my bedtime.

Last night it was 9.30pm because the previous few nights I had been waking up unreasonably early- 4am, 5am- and I was short on sleep. Early nights are the best way to catch up for me, since I dont naturally sleep in, and this morning I slept in till 6am!

 

I do love the early morning quiet, and when I went to school I had to be up very early so i sort of got into the habit. But I have plenty of time to myself during the day, even while the kids are doing school- the kids are older now. When they were little, I would get sleep whenever I could. Since I don't lack "me" time, I don't feel the need to stay up late. In fact I love going to bed after the kids have gone to bed, and curling up with a book till i am too tired to read anymore. My kids go to bed at 8pm and read. Husband works evenings.