In my life this week…
Have I ever mentioned that I’m NOT a morning person?
I am the stay-up-super-late-loves-to-sleep-in kind of girl!
This is why I love summer break so much. The “get up early and get your day started” attitude flies right out the window for me.
But alas, all good things must come to an end, right?
Our Classical Conversations homeschool group is starting in one week and I am trying to prepare myself for what I’m told will be a “rigorous” workload. This means that we need to start our day at a more reasonable hour. My now teenaged, sleep-loving son will not be able to sleep in past 10am on the weekdays anymore.
Sadly, neither will I.
Please join me for a moment as I mourn the lost of my late, late nights and sleeping in unitl the double-digit late morning hour. 
I will be weaning myself off of my summer schedule all next week, so if a few of my upcoming posts sound a bit cranky or coffee-induced you’ll know why.
In our homeschool this week…
Since we’re on countdown for August 22, I am happily preparing binders, organizing book shelves, buying last minute school supplies, and dusting off my teaching hat.
Minus the earlier mornings, I am really looking forward to another blessed homeschool year!
(Plus, I look awesome in my teaching hat!)
Places we’re going and people we’re seeing…
Today was just another normal errand day for me, but interestingly enough, two complete strangers mentioned to me how much they thought that my son and I looked alike.
Sadly, my son was not thrilled about either the dry cleaner’s or the produce man’s compliments comparisons.
I guess that looking like your mom isn’t a very cool thing for a 13 year old boy. You think?
I’m reading…
I can’t remember which one of you suggested this book to me earlier this summer, but THANK YOU! Oh my goodness – I’m only a few chapters in and I’m hooked.
Now I want to go see the movie REALLY BAD! Who’s up for a girls night out? Anyone?
A photo, video, link, or quote to share…
This video has been floating around facebook lately and I just HAD to share it with you, considering my impending morning routine change in one week! (If you’re a morning person…I’m sorry. – lol)
If you can’t see this video on your screen for some reason, you can click HERE to view it in YouTube.
Happy Early Mornings,
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We are starting back on the 22nd too. That is, I plan to if our curriculum comes in time. I am also preparing this week and making planners – my favorite part of homeschooling!!
I’m not a morning person either! Sometimes I think I want to be – or I think I should be because others are. But I’m just not!
“The Help” is a fantastic book! I am so glad you are enjoying it.
I was on Tim Hawkins website just last week and saw that video clip about morning people. It’s too, too funny! I am not a morning person either, but I manage to get up and going with school by 9:30 most days. It is an effort, though! UGH! I would much rather go to bed in wee small hours of the morning than think about waking up at that time.
Have fun preparing and good luck on your first week back!
Night Owl here too! Thankfully, so are my kids (must have trained them up well!). Enjoy your conference!
Were starting on the 22nd too! I’m a morning person..at 6am I’m the only person creeping around my house =)
BUSTED! OH, I am a morning person!!! hahahaha!!!!
I can so relate! I have never been a morning person!!! Love the video!
I haven’t read The Help yet, but I really want to!
I feel your pain in not being a morning person. It is the only downside to the fact that year round school seems to work better for us.
I’ve never been much of a morning person, even my older children slept in or left me alone until I woke up. My granddaughter on the other hand is the complete opposite. Nothing we do will prevent her from waking at the crack of dawn.
And another Night Owl here as well! LOVE LOVE LOVE that video!
Hey, night owl! Aside from that one day a week when you have to be at CC by 10 a.m., you can still sleep in. Even if you start school at noon, the daily work will be done by dinner time, right?
And if those are the most productive hours for you and your son, that’s when you should tackle all of that rigorous stuff. 
Then you can still stay up late!
I am debating reading The Help or watching it first. It is always a dilemma for me which to do first. Did you sign up for PE this year?
I am so with you on the night owl thing!
Oh my word – that video is hilarious!!! All of us in our family are night owls too and would sleep till we’re done every morning if we could. We’d MUCH rather stay up really late than get up at the crack of dawn. I don’t even know what that time of day looks like! lol! (Okay, really I do but not by choice!)
A friend told me about The Help the other day – I’d never heard of it but I think I need to check it out!
Thanks for hosting this each week – I’ve really been enjoying it!!
I just heard about THE HELP this last week and would like to read it. Have to see if my library has it.
I totally understand! I was just thinking to myself that I should hit the hay since I’m going to regret staying up this late tomorrow while I’m trying to do lesson plans, lol. Man, I’m going to miss you summer ! Well I’ll miss the late nights and lazy mornings, but not the 105 degree temps.
So feeling your pain re. mornings! (i have RA -rhumaoid arthritis- on top of just plain NOT being that am person) yucky! praying for God to help me with this one- cause it needs a miracle!
i’m not a morning person either! i figure we’ll get back into our schedule over the course of a week – i’m trying not to worry about it! and i’m looking forward to reading The Help – i have it reserved at the library.
just discovered your site! your journal is such a fun concept, will have to play along next time!
Blessings!
I love the video! I have not seen him before and it was great. Thanks for being an inspiration. Many days I wonder if I really should be homeschooling because I just know I will do a terrible job. But reading your words and the other ladies that post here as well, give me inspiration to keep going! Thank you!
I am so glad to know I am not the only late night, sleep in late kind of gal!
I am usually up at 8:30 only because that’s when the kids get up. Around here people consider that late. One more reason I love homeschooling! 
I’m right there with you about the staying up late and sleeping in. We don’t get up and get started until 8am when it is the school year. I found when my kids were in the B&M school system it was a nightmare just to get them out of bed in the morning (7am). We really are loving that homeschool allows us to sleep in and get the rest that they need (and me) to start the day out right.
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