Thursday, August 16, 2012

I'm still trying to come up with a design for this blog that sticks. Obviously today I'm going with a journal entry kind of thing. Mornings in my house are NOT fun. At all. I'm not sure I really introduced my other half. His name is Kyle. We've been together for 4 years and he is the father of my kids. More on our relationship another day.... back to mornings. He does NOT like to be bothered when he's sleeping nor does he like to get up in the morning. Now I can't say I'm one of those people that hops right up and out of bed when the alarm goes off. Far from it actually. For some reason I set my alarm way too early and end up hitting the snooze button 500+ times. This starts Kyle's aggravation meter right off the bat. By the time I actually do get up he's yelled about shutting the "damn thing off" a decent number of times. When I finally get up its usually with not a lot of time left to spare before we have to be out the door. Sometimes literally 15 minutes. Now that's 15 minutes to get 2 toddlers & 2 adults up and dressed, 2 dogs out & fed, 2 cats fed, everything we need for the day gathered and ready to go and all with 2 grumpy parents and 2 still half sleeping toddlers. I grab cups, breakfast, coffee, phones, kindles & whatever else and we're out the door. Now thankfully I've been doing much better getting up earlier so I usually have at least 40 minutes to get everything and everyone situated. Forgetting anything is a huge no, no though because regardless of how much time we have, we still end up leaving JUST in time and turning around is absolutely not an option. I really despise mornings. And I get pretty aggravated that Kyle will lay there until I'm up dressed and have the kids up and dressed and he thinks there's nothing left to do but get up and go. Except there is other stuff to do and by the time he's up there's no time left. Is it too much to ask for a little teamwork in the morning? Why can't he set his own alarm or get up when mine goes off once and a while? Now don't get me wrong, he's a great dad and SUPER helpful (diapers, playing, watching etc.) during the DAY and at night. But mornings are when we really need to be working as a team. I'm trying to make some AM changes, and everytime I mention it to him it turns into WW3. I'm the mom so apparently its my duty to get everything ready so he can just get up, get dressed and go. UGH. son of *&^%$, m*&%$#f&#$@^!!! I feel like screaming about it. Anyone else not a morning person or deal with this kind of craziness in the mornings? Please tell me all about it. Today's pretty uneventful so far. I have this one debt collector bugging the hell out of me though. My cell phone starts ringing at 7 AM and rings literally once every 15 minutes straight thru until 9 o'clock at night. I've even spoken to them a handful of times and they've called repeatedly the same day! I cannot wait for the day I can pay things again and not have to be bothered!! I need a day o myself I think...... oh sure laugh, a girl can dream can't she? =]