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And now for this week’s sentence to finish: “The hardest part of my day is…”
And next week’s sentence to finish: “If I could have dinner with anyone in history it would be with…”
The hardest part about my day is…Waking up!!
No joke, I am not a morning person and hate mornings for the most part.
My father-in-law always has told me time and again that he likes it dark and dreary in the morning to match his disposition.
Yes he is joking, but you get the point, I am not sunny or bright when I first wake and from the sound of it neither is he. Probably why we get along so well!!
Although, this is truly the only quiet time of the day other then bedtime. So, I usually find myself getting up to reading newly posted up blogs in the morning. And trying to catch up with whatever work I didn’t get to the day before.
Sometimes I would just love to sleep in, but then I kid you not I would get anything accomplished once the juice/milks twins wake up for the day.
I am not kidding, my girls will look for something every 5 minutes if I give them a chance usually in form of juice, milk or snacks.
And trust me when I say they are so not deprived in any form, but still they find the most inopportune times to need that glass of juice. Like just as I am sitting down to write or read something. So, I don’t even bother!
And please don’t misunderstand and think I neglect or ignore them, believe me I don’t, but that is why it is so crucial for me to actually get work out of the way when I first actually wake up as much as I am so not a morning person.
So you got me I am not a morning person and yet have to be at this point in my life. And that truly is the hardest part of my day. What is yours??
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flemily says
It's funny because "waking up" would have been the 2nd hardest part of my day…totally relate. Not a morning person AT ALL…with kids, we have no choice to function in the morning but it's soooo hard….
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Janine Huldie says
See, I knew I liked you Emily, but now I only have more of you to like, because seriously this is yet something else you and I have in common!! π
Billybuc says
That's an easy one…the hardest part of my day is finding time to do everything on my docket….and I fail miserably every single day. π
Have a great weekend, Janine!
Janine Huldie says
Bill, I know that feeling all too well myself even more so lately. Thank you for sharing and have a great weekend, too!! π
stephsprenger says
Well, obviously I am with you on this one! And I am also kind of with your FIL- I like dreary mornings, too! Good for you for getting up early and getting blog stuff done. I wish I could. I am still a slave to sleep…
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Janine Huldie says
Trust me Stephanie, I wish I could sleep in, but my kids had me trained when they were babies and now that they sleep I still wake up a few times a night. And since it is quiet and they are sleeping, I try to make the best of it, even though sometimes I really just miss my sleep more then you know!!
Jean says
I'm finally starting to realize why commercials have parents looking so damn satisfied with that first coffee in the morning. I have started to get up early and I treat drinking coffee like its some sort of sacred experience. So, right there with you Janine!
Janine Huldie says
Jean, now I am humming the Folger's Commercial (The Best Part of Waking Up…), right before I am going to bed, lol!! Love it and so glad it isn't just me though π
Rich Rumple says
I, too, have a difficult time getting up in the morning. In fact, I love it when my wife works the early shift as it gives me an excuse to sleep most of the day … uninterrupted. Going to bed at night is like giving up, yet, waking up with my hands on the keyboard, like last night, is not a tempting endeavor one likes to repeat often. Great post, Janine!
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Janine Huldie says
Oh I have so done that with the keyboard and so not a pretty sight. Thanks Rich and seriously so happy to have you back!! π
pam9090 says
Yep, me you and your father in law. The only thing worse than not being a morning person is being married to someone who is.
My recent post Mission Impossible: Waking Up
Janine Huldie says
Lol, so damn true Pam and I would know, because my husband is such a morning person it is sickening sometimes!!!
Karie says
Bed time with my boys (now 3 and 7). They have missed me all day and have behaved all day and like to lay into me the entire evening. I am most certainly a helicopter parent…so they fight me every step of the way. Bed time takes way too long to even admit!
Janine Huldie says
Bedtime has a gotten a bit easier around here, but trust me we still have our nights, too.
gigigirl says
I am a morning person so that is my most energetic time of the day when I get the most accomplished. Now that I'm retired, I don't really have many bad days! The worst part of a day would be when I have to dust and vacuum…..and that doesn't happen too often these days! A quick run through with the battery operated sweeper keeps things going. Zip, zip…..
Enjoy your quiet times in the a.m. That's the best way to get past the hard time for you. Love…Aunt Gloria
Janine Huldie says
Oh vacuuming and dusting are the worst, but such a necessary evil. I will say that since I got the Dyson Vacuum a few years back, it has gotten a bit easier!! Thanks Aunt Gloria and love you too xoxo!! π
Karen says
I hear you Janine, sometimes I try to get up earlier than I do to exercise or blog and Dino gets up too! grrrr. They always know when you want to do something and then they are all over you. I can't wait till he's a teen, I'm doing to ask him to do chores just as he sits down each time, LOL
Janine Huldie says
Oh can't wait for chores and maybe not have to clean up a much after them. But glad to know that I am not the only one that has this happen to me either!!
Dara says
The moment I sit down/open a book/go to the bathroom, that is when my children suddenly "need" something. I swear it's their sixth sense. I don't remember having it, though…
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Janine Huldie says
Oh so true and I lost count how many times this is has happened to me, too!!!
MelChi says
Hahah, I remember you saying you weren't a morning person. Well, you know that I am but it's winter over here and getting up right now is also the hardest part for me. Especially this morning at 5.15am when I got up to get ready in the dark and rainy weather to go to the gym. Madness!!!
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Janine Huldie says
Oh winters are the worst with morning, because it is so cold and I truly don't want to leave my nice, warm bed. So yes can relate totally on that!!
massholemommy says
My boys are big snackers, too. They always have to have something in their mouths.
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Janine Huldie says
Glad it isn't just my kids, lol!! π
susanzutautas says
I've always been a morning person. I'm up at 5 or 6. I find it the most peaceful time of the day.
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Janine Huldie says
Susan, you would so get along with Kevin. He too loves the morning!!
Kenya G. Johnson says
Sleeping in is a punishment for me. It's just not a good day when I'm not the first one up. I love my morning quiet time. This is when I get to blog visit and/or write. I just tip toed out front and made my coffee. Another hard part of my day is staying up until 10:00. You should have seen me last night waiting to drop off my link π
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Janine Huldie says
Lol, I know trust me. I had a migraine yesterday and had tons to do. I muddled through and knew I had to get the link up and running, but by 11 pm I was toast and so ready for my pillow. But I am with on liking getting my work done in the morning, just not the actual morning if that makes sense!!
Erin Callaway says
I hear ya. I hate that early morning wakeup. I used to enjoy it because the kids slept in but now they don't. The best time ever was when I was home for a month before I had Ben and got to sleep in every day! It was wonderful. I really do miss those days!!!
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Janine Huldie says
Oh I remember those days right before I had Emma and how quiet it was here. I actually couldn't wait to have her. What was I thinking, lol!! But seriously thanks again for linking up with us today!! π
The Dose of Reality says
This really made me laugh because I am SO NOT A MORNING PERSON. There have been so many times in my life when I've had to ACT like a morning person and get up crazy early…for years on end even…but I'm just not! It is the WORST! I'd actually LOVE to be a morning person, but I really think you either are or you aren't. And I'm not! I'm with you! Hardest part of the day!! –Lisa
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Janine Huldie says
Lisa, thank you for letting me know it isn't just me. Seriously, mornings are so rough and just wish I could skip over them!! π
Kerri says
This morning my husband asked why I got up so early, I am so not a morning person. Once I explained that some one had to get the girls breakfasts, lunches ready for school, laundry and shower them before school he said "Oh okay" and rolled back over!
My recent post The Hardest Part of My Day
Janine Huldie says
Kerri, so sounds like my house, too. God, how I wish just once it would get down all by itself, but know that is just a dream!!!
Lisa @ Golden Spoons says
We are two peas in a pod, you & me!! Both with the morning hatred and the constant needy request from little girls all day long!
My recent post Mornings – Bah Humbug!
Janine Huldie says
See Lisa, I told you I love, because we really do have this and so much more in common!!! π
Sylvia says
AHH! I see that we do share our disdain of waking up! we seem to have a lot in common!
Janine Huldie says
I know Sylvia and truly love that I am in such good company with this and so much more with you!! π π
clark says
very good post
(btw… I was quite proud of myself for finishing my Post before 8am, thinking, 'hah! I can link of and read the 5 or 6 early bird entries and stay ahead on my reading' Of course, I got here and saw that there were 25 earlier birds already done and submitted. )
What say you and Kate and Stephanie and Dawn dial down the popularity of this blog a little? lol
Having said that, I would submit that the mornings are my favorite time.
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Janine Huldie says
I know you love mornings and that is because you are a Clark, lol!! But seriously, thank you as always for linking up and just being you!! π π
Katia says
Oh, how could anyone possibly think you're neglecting them? You're investing in them by doing what it takes to stay sane and if reading some blogs and writing in the morning is what you need then there's no harm in that. Oh, and I SO hear you on the whole morning and waking up thing.
Janine Huldie says
Oh thanks Katia. I just try my best, but have my moments and mornings definitely are so not my thing for sure. Glad to know seriously it isn't just me!! π
Niki says
Waking up is hard for me too – I’m usually a morning person but on days that I have to go to work, it suuuucks. I’d say the hardest par if my day, though, is that moment that I actually have to get out of my car and walk into the building for work. I sound like I hate my job! Haha I swear I don’t!
Janine Huldie says
Lol, I do remember that feeling all too well when I worked full time before having my girls. And I too didn't hate my job by any means, but I think that is just the feeling you get before you officially start your work day , if that makes sense!!
Sylvia says
I entered every section of the contest except the Follow on Twitter ones because Twitter won't letme follow anyone until I get more followers. Sorry.. I came From Raising Reagen
Janine Huldie says
Oh no worries Sylvia. I am having trouble with Twitter, too and when I reacher 2,000 they put a freeze on me, too. But I am also gotten closer, so thanking god on that!!
Jamie@southmainmuse says
Amen sister. That alarm goes off and it's like — ugh. In the summer it's a bit better, but I still get up with my husband before he leaves the house. The best part is the kiddos sleeping in.
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Janine Huldie says
Totally shake my hand, because when I just read your post and thought the same thing!!! And so happy to see you linked up this week. Missed you!! π
NuggetOnABudget says
I know what you mean! Even thought I AM a morning person, I don't get to enjoy the mornings because Sofia wakes up when I do. So we have to get started with our day. Luckily she usually wants to play for a bit after breakfast so I can get in some blogging time before we get ready and head out the door. But doing those things really is the hardest part of my day…just trying to get us both ready and deciding what needs to be done that day and in what order lol. Linked up again! xoxo
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Janine Huldie says
Yay Kera for linking up and heading over right now to check out. And seriously morning are really I think a mother's worst nightmare sometimes!!
Gwen says
Definitely getting up! And hi! Blog hop newbie here!
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Janine Huldie says
Hi Gwen and thank you for joining us today. Also glad to get to know another morning hater!! π
Rosey says
I'm a total morning person but I get up so early it makes me tired a lot quicker than anyone else. My worst part of the day, therefore, is when I start getting sleepy because I know I'm the only one going to bed!
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Janine Huldie says
Even though I am not a morning person, I also am the first to rise to try to get a handle on things before double trouble are up. Therefore as much as I am a night person, I do get tired, too, but have to keep going. So probably why I hate the mornings even more now!!
Dana says
I'm with you, Janine. Mornings suck. But school is out now, and my kids love to sleep in – yay for me!
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Janine Huldie says
Total yay for me and so do mine, but I still haven't quite figured out how to do that for myself just yet!! Thanks Dana again!! π
Lanaya says
I am a morning person but there are some mornings that I just want to pull all the curtains shut and lock myself in the room. So I get it!! Have a wonderful weekend my love and Happy Birthday to your hubby!
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Janine Huldie says
Well, I finally found something we aren't alike on, but still love you tons anyway, lol!! But seriously, glad you et it and thank you a ton my friend!!! π xoxo!!
basicallyb says
Before baby, yes my hardest part of the day was waking up before I was ready. I called it "waking the rooster up" The worst is when whomever it was that would wake me up would open the curtains, letting the blazing sun just blind me. They would totally be asking for a death wish!
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Janine Huldie says
Seriously, that is how I felt when I was younger. My poor grandmother had the job one time when I was a kid and I was just so miserable to her about this. Wish I would have been nicer though, because now I get it in spades from my younger who is just like me in this way!!
findingninee says
I'm not a morning person either! It's SO hard to wake up. Bleh. Love your e-cards saying – that's funny!
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Janine Huldie says
Oh glad you liked that card and so was looking for something that would work perfectly, because I don't have many pictures what would depict this one, but glad that I did find this one!! And thanks for again making me feel a bit better that I am not the only person who doesn't like mornings!! π
wtkab says
Thanks for another great link up! The hardest part of my day lately is getting the nastiest things out of my daughter's mouth!
Janine Huldie says
Oh I do remember that stage all too well and so not fun. My pleasure and thanks for joining in as always!! π
ourhomeonderanged says
Yes and yes. Although it's worse when you get woken up by someone else instead of on your own volition. You know what I'm talking about here. π
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Janine Huldie says
I totally do and oh how not fun to be awoke by screaming little people and know you get that one all to well, too!! π
Considerer says
It takes me a while to come round, but I got my routine and I'm not usually too grouchy in the mornings – just don't get in the way of my cuppatea and my book.
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Janine Huldie says
Lol, I will so try to remember that, but seriously thank you for sharing an linking up with us as always!! π
realhousewife says
I hate mornings too Janine. I hated working day shifts too. Now I work from home too but I tend to get the most done after everyone else is tucked in for bed. No one wants to see me around here in the a.m. – they all start screaming stuff like, "she's up! Run for the hills! The witch is coming!" Lol
Janine Huldie says
Lol, now that sounds like Kevin Kevin describing me in the morning!! By the way, I wanted to leave a comment on your latest post, but the comments were closed. Just wanted to tell you how awesome all your pictures were and that it looked like a wonderful trip was definitely had!! π
Nikki says
I think it's perfectly ok to not be a morning person. And it's true, that is the only part of the day when moms can get anything done!
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Janine Huldie says
So ironic that it is the perfect time to get anything done, but oh much I loathe it in the next breathe!! Thank you for hosting on MTM Mixer this week!! π
Judy Haughton-James says
Hi Janine,
Strangely enough I get up early without any problem. These days I am up before the clock alarms. The difficult time for me is anytime after 8.30 p.m. I am usually trying to get things done for the day as I start feeling tired. I rarely go to bed later than 9.30 p.m. I can hardly believe there was a time when I went to bed very late! Take care and a wonderful weekend to you and your family.
Judy
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Janine Huldie says
Oh thank you Judy and hope you too are having a wonderful weekend!! And I seem to burn the candle at both ends and sometimes not sure just how I do that, but at this point it is the only real option with my girls to do things before and after they go to bed!! π
Betty Taylor says
Thanks for hosting again! This is one of my favorite hops! The sentences are so great. Sorry, you don't wake up so well. It is hard to getting any time when you have little ones. In the blink of an eye they will be going off to school and you'll have much more time to blog and hopefully sleep in a little.
My recent post FTSF – What's So Hard About That!!
Janine Huldie says
My pleasure to co-host and I am truly loving seeing how much excitement all are getting in linking up with us weekly now. And thanks for the reaffirming that it will get a bit easier with time!! π
Janine Huldie says
Lol, I can get up just fine. I am just not happy getting up in the morning. I have always been this way and my body seems to be more relaxed and works better ast he day goes on. Not sure why, but just the way it is. Kevin is like you though with mornings and gets such a rise out of driving me crazy over this!! Thanks Melissa again for linking up!! π
Joan Robertson says
Hi, I'm lucky, I AM a morning person! I've really never had trouble waking up and getting my brain to work, although sometimes I don't really like GETTING up, especially in winter. The females of my family were always early risers, so maybe it's inherited. My problem now is to move, but that doesn't stop me waking at an unearthly hour, usually around 5 AM. Yes, that's right, 5 AM! See you!
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Janine Huldie says
I have often up around 5 am when I was teaching full-time and did it, but just so wasn't a fan, I suppose. But that is just me. Sounds like you did very much inherit this and will say my mom was a lot like me, so I guess I know where I get my loathing of morning time from!! Thank you as always for linking with us and hope your weekend has been great!! π
Stephanie says
I have to agree – waking up is the hardest part of my day too. I take medication for insomnia, so I wake up all sorts of groggy and miserable. Sometimes I think it would be better just to stay up all night lol.
Btw, I am currently writing a post for next week's (6/21) FTSF. It's "If I could have dinner with anyone in history it would be with…”, correct? Don't want to be on the wrong sentence again! LOL blonde moment!
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Janine Huldie says
You are totally on the right sentence and very excited to see what you come up with Stephanie. Thank you for always linking up and sharing with us!! π
canigetanotherbottleofwhine says
I struggle with the mornings too – mostly breakfast. My kids watch TV as soon as they get up, so that totally mesmerizes them. π
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Janine Huldie says
So do mine, but they always ask me for something to drink within ten minutes, lol!! And don't get me started on breakfast. Seriously, I could right a whole post on that one, lol!!