Day 4: Short-order cook:

Well, after 4 Omega-3 eggs, 6 normal eggs, 3 brown rice tortillas, 2 flour tortillas, 3 cups of juice, a small amount of salsa and a bowl of oatmeal, I feel like a Short-order cook. Fed husband, fed me, fed daughters, fed son #1, fed son #2, fed son #3, cleaned up everything until it was spotless and left the kitchen 2 ½ hours later. Hmmmm, and this is what I get for waking up at 6:00 AM every morning??

I am NOT a morning person, let me repeat my self, I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON!!!! My absolute favorite time of the day is about 10:30 PM when the entire house is asleep and I have endless hours of undisturbed time to do whatever I want ... work on a project, read books, soak in a bath, surf the ‘net. It’s 100% unadulterated ME time. However, time and time again I am reading articles and books telling me that the 8 hours from 10 to 6 are healthier than the eight hours from 12 to 8. So, it an attempt to follow my “plan”. I am attempting to change my habits. You know the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” I am feeling like an old dog.

Late nights usually lead to late mornings! My kids are pretty self-sustaining having a mom that wasn’t very good at jumping up and getting out the door. They have for many years gotten up mostly on their own, gotten breakfast, made lunches, and headed out the door with not much more from me than a conversation while I stayed in bed and let them have the run of the house. They would bring me papers to sign, spelling words to study, or just come and sit when they had extra time. I actually have some of my best conversations with my daughter during these early hours. But this is all supposed to change. I am going to become a morning person!!

My husband has to leave the house by 6:41 or he will not make his bus. He is going along with the UltraMind Solution Program, but isn’t putting a whole lot of thought into it. He just eats what I tell him to. So, if I have something available for breakfast he will eat it, otherwise he skips it. So, we worked it out that I will get up at 6 AM, I will make breakfast while he gets ready for the day and have it ready for him to eat right before he leaves for work. I figured it was a good idea to help the kids avoid the sugary cereals we have a tendency to buy by including them at the breakfast table.

We have been attempting to turn the light out by 11:00, eventually working on 10:30 and even 10:00 ideally. The light goes out, my husband starts breathing deeply and out he goes and there I lay thinking about how good this is for me to go to bed early ... yeah right. I have tried this before, but usually by about 3 days into it, I’m done and back to the late nights I go. But this is a 6 week program. So, I’m committed to work at it this time.