Morning People

No, I didn't title it that as a way to greet all of y'all (yes, I say y'all...although usually not in print...).  I've been sitting here pondering the complexities of "morning people."  I have slowly become a little less evil zombie-like in the morning, but I don't think I've ever been a "morning person."  Back in my early college days (which are slipping farther and farther into the distance...I'm approaching my *gulp* 27th birthday...) my best and oldest friend in the world, A, was the one I enlisted to rouse me from the dead....she HATED IT!  I would plead with her the night before some early morning (and by early, I probably meant 10 am) appointment, "PLEASE wake me up in the morning!  No matter WHAT I HAVE to wake up!"  She would make a joke and reluctantly agree....and I'd prove her right...every time.  I was like Lucy with a football to her Charlie Brown...I'd keep promising to get up without biting her head off and she'd keep wanting to believe me.  Inevitably, 10 a.m. would roll around and she'd come a'calling.  I am pretty sure I have thrown things, said ugly words, and maybe even tried to kick her before!  (By the grace of God we are still friends!)
Fast forward to present day...I'm not NEARLY as bad as I was back in those days, but I am still not one of those people who can jump right up the first time the alarm sounds and get moving right away.  The bad part is, my alarm clock is the boys running in a jumping on me!  I can't tell you how many dreams I've had about Lightening McQueen and Mater from letting the boys watch "Cars" in my room while Mommy gets a few more minutes of rest.  Even when my brain is finally awake, I don't get going good until around noon.  Now, considering I'm usually awake until midnight, that still leaves me plenty of time to get my daily duties done, right?  WRONG!  S gets home from work around 3 and then it's time for Taekwondo, dinner, baths, evening playtime, and the kiddos bedtime.  I have become a master of fitting a day's worth of work into a 3 hour span.  (That is assuming the kids cooperate..which is rarely!)