I've officially given up the Early to Rise Challenge and life his been less stressful for me. I just really don't think that me getting up before my kids would helpful to me. I can see how it would benefit a lot of people, but things are working fine for me the way that we've been doing them.
I actually got up today at 7:05 without an alarm clock set, so maybe all I needed was the stress of the alarm gone to get up earlier.
I would eventually like to get up earlier for the sole purpose of getting exercise in before I take the kids to school, but I'm not going to force it. I'm going to keep working on waking up without an alarm and see if I start to wake up earlier.
Even though I've been ignoring this blog, I have still been thinking about my "trying to yell less" challenge for myself. I even went downstairs to talk to one of my kids yesterday instead of just yelling from the top of the stairs. Which for me is huge. I am constantly just yelling at them from upstairs to do things or to get ready to go somewhere. I am trying to change this. I want to make sure and always been in the same room as my kids when I'm talking to them.
Our new after school schedule is still working marvelously. The kids choose to get their chores done most of the time so that they can get a little video game time in. There has only been a few days where they played instead and didn't get them done. And I just let it happen. I didn't yell or get upset when chores weren't finished. I just explained that there would be no video games because they had chosen to not get their chores done. It was glorious.
Now, I still need to find a way to get mornings running more smoothly.
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