I Had a Real Nice Thing Going, Until Croup

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything. My goal was to wake up before my son does and in that time work on this site and write. Well, he got croup a few months ago. That’s a story for another time. But when recovered he had trouble going to bed by himself. That was a few weeks of one of us being in there while he fell asleep, then sneaking out. He’s mostly beyond that now, but we keep the door open until he’s fast asleep.

At the other end, he’s been waking up early. Instead of the 6ish he used to wake up at, we’re talking 5:15, 4:45. This morning: 4:11 a.m. Sometimes he’s up for the day. Other times he’ll go back down. Or insist on coming into our bed. It’s not too often I am able to get up before him and sit down at the computer to write. So I haven’t written anything lately. I guess I need to start writing at night, if I’m not going to get any morning time to do so (or figure out how to get him to sleep longer).

I’m not going to give up my sleep though. One of the goals I’ve set lately is to get seven-and-a-half hours of sleep a night. I go to bed and set an alarm for eight hours later, assuming it will take a while to fall asleep and I might wake up once or twice (or my son will). Mostly I get at least seven hours. But I’m finding myself going to bed earlier to get that sleep, knowing my son will wake me up earlier and earlier. There’s so much I want to do in a day (a future topic), and his sleeping nine to nine-and-a-half hours when I want to get eight doesn’t leave me much alone time to get anything done. My wife goes to bed early too because she wakes up very early to do her shit. I’m essentially alone at night and with so little time it all feels so managed down to the minute. I journal, work, read, watch Star Trek (currently in season three of Enterprise), do yoga if I haven’t done any already, and meditate. I barely have time for that in that one to one-and-a-half hours before I know I need to get to bed if I want to get the sleep I need.

I don’t really have a point here. I just wanted to write because it’s been a while.

Cheers,

Kyle