I am totally a morning person but I am worried that Noah and Grace both seem most active and awake, at least in the NICU, at 9:00 PM. Really, in addition to healing my kids, I'd be even more grateful and loving and appreciative if only the nursing staff could train them to sleep at night.
Are you still teaching at the school that has a fairly different calendar? In other words, if Noah and Grace come home in July, will you be home for the summer? When you have a new baby, everyone tells you to sleep when they sleep. That's fairly impossible if you're going to work. If you have a month or two home that gives you chances for naps while you try to nudge the babies towards a more human schedule, it will be less soul sucking for you, if they're nightowls.
That said, while they're still in the hospital, once they start to tolerate stimulation, I'd be putting on Broadway shows to keep them awake during your daytime visits.
When I was consulting, I found that my perfect cicadian rhythym was bed at 2AM, up at 10AM. i was so damn productive, went to the gym most days, etc. that's fully half of the reason that i want the job I've applied for, I'll have a flexible schedule.
This was once my favorite schedule, too. I don't think I'd go back to it though, even if it could work with my life. I like not dreading morning any more.
I pulled an allnighter to get edits out (DONE! ALL DONE!) and had to get up for work and now I'm a wreck.
And it only takes a weekend for me to fall into this rhythm.
Dude, me too. The only way I can explain it is that going to bed at a decent hour for
me
is like going to bed at 4 o'clock in the afternoon for most people.
When 70's style velour jumpsuits come pack into fashion, then we'll know the robot rebellion won't be far behind. That will be a good time to start fashioning EMP weapons and get rid of your Roombas(tm).
Just to be safe, we should probably keep an eye out for people claiming to be from the future who are arrested trying to burn down velour jumpsuit factories....
Especially if the velour jumpsuit factory is owned by Skynet.
Are you still teaching at the school that has a fairly different calendar? In other words, if Noah and Grace come home in July, will you be home for the summer?
Yep. I'm currently on leave, but my usual breaks are July-August and December-early March. K's breaks are May-June and November-December. So there are only 4 months a year when we are working at the same time. Which means I need to start thinking about childcare for Sept.-Oct. but we'll see. My mom said she'd come out then before she got all mad and stompy and left.
Allyson, I'm so impressed!
The thing about early mornings and late nights is the quiet. I love the quiet. The afternoons are my super sucky time. Early AM is good. And evenings are fine. But 2:00 PM? Forget it.
I am majorly groggy this morning, not helped by extreme insomnia at 5 AM, followed by a two hour "nap" starting at 9 AM. Plus I had a dream about living in a horrible, horrible apartment, where my former coworkers came to check up on me and were visibly pitying me for living there....
I had nasty insomnia last night - I think I got to sleep around 1:30. I've had two cups of tea and I think I'm waking up now.
There should be a movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger breaks into a police station armed with machine guns and forces all the cops to put on velour jumpsuits....
I cannot work past about 2pm if I'm on my own. The entire time I was in law school and studying for the bar, I would start my reading/writing at 7am and work until about 1:30. Past that, I might mean to work, but I could never get myself motivated to do it.
In college, I could occasionally study until 9-10pm, but after that I would start to feel sick to my stomach and cold.
I've never had trouble sleeping, but when I was pregnant, sometimes I couldn't sleep. Since I was in the house alone, it was incredibley liberating when I finally realized that I could get up, read, watch TV, or have a snack and no one would care or want me back in bed.
