A.M. Ritual

Sometimes, Often, Once in awhile, my husband drives me crazy. Sometimes he doesn't do his fair share, sometimes I just want him to come home and TAKE THE BABY FOR THE LOVE OF TARGET (see how I jumped on that bandwagon? It's pretty up here!). But mornings? Mornings are, 90% of the time, the reason I'm still married (joking!)

Here's what our mornings look like.

• 4 am - I feed Jude
  
• 6 am - Luke gets up to get ready for work. I may or may not feed Jude again
  
• 6:30 am or 7 am - Quentin gets up
  
• Notice the part about how I'M NOT GETTING UP
  
• 7:45 am - Luke leaves for work
  
• between 8 and 8:30 am - I get up with or without Jude (sometimes he sleeps in)

See, between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m., Luke takes Quentin duty. He puts on Q's cartoons, feeds him breakfast, and generally entertains him so that I can "sleep in" (often enough this means just trying to keep the baby happy, but WHO'S COMPLAINING?). And I have to say, this routine of not stressing out for a change does nothing to make me reconsider my homeschooling notions. YES I AM THAT SELFISH

Luke definitely wins some sort of award for taking a.m. duty, I think.



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