My Mornings
April 29, 2007 4:56 pm Getting it Done, Mom is a person tooDeb asked a question on her blog this morning that I thought I’d answer, because my answer is different today than it was last Sunday. Yeah, you can teach an old dog new tricks, LOL! The difference is “breakfast“. I am not (was not?) a breakfast person. I usually did not eat until about 2pm. This past week, I’ve been eating breakfast, and the results have been great, not only for me, but for the whole family! See, when I eat breakfast, I get hungry for snack, and then for lunch. When I get hungry, I know it’s time to feed the children. This way, I am able to get the food ready before everyone gets so hungry that they get ill and snappish (including me). When I didn’t eat breakfast, I didn’t get hungry, and by the time we’d get lunch ready, attitudes had really deteriorated. I thought I was saving time by skipping breakfast, but taking that 15 minutes to eat really saves a lot of time dealing with behavioral issues.
So, what’s my ideal morning? I’m up by seven, have eaten and had a couple of cups of coffee and written a couple of blog posts by 8. We tidy the house while singing like the Von Trapps, and settle down for school by 9. We work quietly and steadily for a couple of hours, and we are done with school. We eat lunch. /end of perfect morning
What really happens? I’m up around 8:30, eat and have a couple cups of coffee while reading email. We tidy the house with much obstinate arguing and so it takes forever, and we are finally done close to 11:30. We eat lunch and then do school. Obviously, we’re still a work in progress around here.
Deb (29 comments.) :
Date: April 30, 2007 @ 7:20 am
cass :
Date: May 2, 2007 @ 12:35 am
It was a great question, Deb. As soon as I read it, I know I was going to post about it. It took me several hours to get to it, but I did it.