I am a wife and a mother of four and I am a night owl. I am not a morning person. This didn’t really affect me until I had my first baby. Before I had kids my husband and I would get up and say not a word to each other. We would get ready, go downstairs, put a coffee in the Keurig, a “Good Morning” not being uttered until we had that first sip.
Let me tell you.. life has changed. Now we wake up to our four year old jumping into bed with us talking a mile a minute, our 3 year old yelling random things, because that’s really her only volume, and one or both of the 10 month old twins will be crying, needing to be fed. In the span of 10 minutes we go from blissful sleep to all 6 of us in the bed clamouring for blankets.
In these last five years, I have learned that going with the flow is key to my sanity. I have also earned that as much as I try, I can’t change my nature. I will always be a night person. I will never be a morning person. Hence, I am an Up Too Late Mama. This is when I get stuff done. So in the morning after going to bed way too late for my own good, I just lay there with four little people crawling all over me and take a deep breath. It may be chaotic and I may think I’ll never have enough time in the day to get everything done that a momma needs to get done, but then I remember, my up too late self can worry about that later..
Up Too Late Mama 