Morning alarms

[pegkerr]

5:50 a.m. my alarm goes off. I get up and turn it off immediately. I go into the girls' room to wake Delia. This is necessary because Delia cannot awake to an alarm clock. I stroke her arms and legs quietly for about three minutes before she blearily rouses. Once she's awake I re-set my alarm for 6:30 and go back to bed.
6:07 Rob's alarm goes off, clock radio set to an incredibly obnoxious sports radio station that I just loathe. He doesn't wake up well to an alarm--he just doesn't hear it--so what usually happens is that I have to jostle him several times and repeatedly demand that he get up and turn it off. I cannot take fart jokes at the best of times, much less at that time of the morning. He staggers to the girls' room to make sure that Delia is moving (she frequently dozes back to sleep), and then goes downstairs to make sandwiches for the girls' lunch
6:20 Fiona's alarm goes off. She manages to get up on her own.
6:30 My alarm goes off again. I get up immediately again.
6:50 Delia leaves for school. Usually Rob goes back to bed at this point, setting his alarm for later in the morning.
7:50 Fiona leaves for school
8:00 I leave for work.

Fiona does a better job of booting her brain up than Delia or Rob do (it helps that her school starts later than Delia's), but she still isn't very talkative in the mornings. I've learned over the years that if I tell Rob anything that I want him to remember (please pick up a quart of milk today; don't forget to pick Fiona up after school; I have a meeting at church tonight) I'm more or less wasting my breath if I tell him before 10:00 a.m. in the morning. He simply WILL NOT remember it.

I wish there was someone in my family who was a morning person, besides me. There is certainly very little conversation at that time of day.

Comments

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Not waking up well to an alarm tends to cause problems in life. Is there any chance that an alarm that flashes lights instead of making noise would help Delia and/or Rob? I sometimes think about getting one of those because being woken up by a noisy alarm clock tends to give me a headache, which is not a good start to the day on the rare occasions when I really need to be woken up.