Life Where We Are
Morning Rituals 01/25/2012
 
So this conversation just happened.

My husband - "We need a new morning ritual.  I'm not enjoying ours."
Me - "Remember in our first apartment when I would turn on Bloomberg  News and bring you coffee in bed?  You liked that ritual."
My husband - "Misty, you did it twice."

Ritual, schmitual.  To my credit I do think I did it more than twice but I know the ritual didn't last long enough to be properly labelled as a ritual.  

This is our ritual now:  

I get up first and make a fresh fruit salad and a big pot of stone ground oatmeal.   The coffee gets started and fresh orange juice squeezed.  Then while the oatmeal is cooking I have a time of prayer and meditation.  My husband walks into the kitchen with our sweet, sleepy-faced son just as everything is set nicely on the table and  they greet me with a smile and a kiss.

Yeah, right!  

1.  My husband gets up early enough to take calls from his clients in NY.  Early.  
2.  I get up when Max wakes up and we stumble to the kitchen to make coffee.  
3.  Max helps by smelling the coffee beans and turning the coffee pot on  after I put in the grounds and water.  
4.  I heat up two cups in preparation for the coffee and Max eats his first breakfast, oatmeal.  
5.  We take Josh a cup of coffee and I sit with Max to drink mine while we read books.  
6.  Then I make 3 fried eggs, 3 pieces of toast and refill the coffee cups.  
7.  Josh and I eat our first breakfast and Max eats his second.  Woohoo! Isn't that inspiring.

Today however, before my husband insulted me with the ritual conversation, I was contemplating how much better my day would go if I purposed to get up and get dressed before Max wakes up.  I would actually be ready to walk out the door at any time of the day!  I might even make it to some of those mommy groups and play dates that always start way too early in the morning for me.  Well, that is a stretch but maybe.  

Do you have morning rituals?  Do any of you stay-at-home-moms or work-at-home-moms end up staying in your p.j.s way longer than you care to admit?
 


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Leslie link
01/26/2012 13:14

I like to stay in bed as long as possible. So morning routine often involves a cold preschooler bum coming to cuddle after he's stripped naked and gone pee :)

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Dana link
01/27/2012 08:25

This made me laugh. You totally suckered me for a second (I'm blaming it on being sick) and I couldn't see what could possibly be wrong with your morning routine!

I can't bear to get up before my son unless I have to. I just always seem to need the sleep so badly. Today I woke up at 5:30 because he had a nightmare and couldn't get back to sleep. He ended up sleeping until 8:15. I admire people who get up before their kids and do a morning workout but I don't see that happening ever.

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melanie link
01/28/2012 19:50

I used to hang out in my pajamas all day but these days I'm very big on creating a morning routine I enjoy because I find that it is making my life easier. In fact, I have so much to say on this topic that I had to write a whole post about it: http://wp.me/p11X9G-Ag.

Keep in mind though that I didn't start doing this until recently - that would be after my second child was born. It's hard but worth it to get dressed in the morning.

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Michelle link
02/01/2012 17:28

You had me totally believing your new ritual and I was starting to just hate you a bit.

I have really tried to get up earlier than the kids and it's 50/50 if I succeed at that. With 2 out of 3 kids always sleeping through the night it's getting easier for a more structured routine in the morning but if Sophie has had a bad night it is usually a bad next morning.

Next year Laila will be heading to school in the morning when Hayden goes so I should really try to find a mommy & me group for Sophie and I to go to. But we might just have our own little group at home in our PJ's.

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