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Oct 7 2008

Late to bed, early to rise

Category: Kids & Growing Up

Nathan must be at school by 8 a.m. which means we leave here no later than 7:45 a.m. With our early start, I often have to wake Lucie, get her dressed, and find some sort of breakfast item for her to munch in the car. Many mornings that's more than she'll put up with, so I end up taking her to school in her pajamas and slippers.

If I have an early morning meeting at school, I'll pack her clothes along some breakfast. We'll drop Nathan off and Miss Pajama Girl and I will head for school bathroom for a wardrobe change. Then during my meeting she'll have her bananas and juice. Only a three-year-old can get away with arriving for a meeting in her PJs. How I envy her. 

But now that summer vacation has arrived -- and we don't have to be out of the house before 9 a.m. most mornings -- Lucie's waking up around 6:30 or 7 a.m. even though she's going to bed much later. Maybe it's the birds singing in the morning, or the bright sunshine. But I think she's just doing this to drive me crazy.