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Our Daily Thread 12-28-12

Good Morning!

It’s Friday! And the start of another long weekend with the family. Yay!

And snow for Saturday! Yay again!

🙂

Quote of the Day

“Faith makes all things possible… love makes all things easy.”

Dwight  L. Moody

And yes, I still have more Christmas cookies to eat.

🙂

65 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 12-28-12”

  1. First! (I think)
    It sure is quiet around here – a lot of people are taking a well-deserved break.
    I had a good Christmas. The weekend before, I was able to go to the city and Skype with my family. Then, we had a bonfire here on Christmas Eve. On Christmas day, I joined the other family to open presents and have dinner together. The next day, Boxing Day for Canadians, I had everyone over to my house and made the traditional French-Canadian Christmas food, tortiere – a spiced meat and apple pie.

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  3. So gald you are adjusting and enjoying your time Roscuro.

    I had one of those rare nights when I went to sleep at 10pm and didn’t move again until the alarm went off at 6!

    Life is good.

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  5. Destination weekend wedding! Fortunately, wine country makes a great destination when you’re from Joplin, MO. We’re looking forward to seeing our nieces and meeting a great-niece for the first time. Let the festivities begin, yet again, for me! 🙂

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  6. Are you coming to my neighborhood, Michelle? Joplin is only 300 or so miles away in the SW corner of the state (I am in the NE corner)!

    AJ- how about some leftover banana-chocolate chip pancakes? Or some home-made fudge?

    And of course, it’s Friday! Where’s Chas this morning?

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  7. Love makes all things easy, huh? Not sure I’d tell that to the person losing a spouse to cancer of Alzeheimer’s. Not all things done in love are “easy.”

    The weather forecast says “flurries.” But where I come from, a cloud full of snow clouds and steady snow isn’t flurries. I suppose it probably won’t last, but if it did last we’d get several inches over the course of the day; it isn’t a few random flakes.

    Michelle, are you saying you live near the destination, not that you’re traveling to get there? (That’s how I read it, that they’re coming to you.)

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  11. No more food!

    That said, it is time for breakfast & I’m running late today, I over-slept (even for our late-morning start schedules).

    At least the coffee’s ready.

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  13. Breakfast? Let’s see, Donna. You posted at 8:42 your time. Why, that’s almost time for mid-morning snack! (At least for me when I get up and have breakfast at 6:30.)

    AJ- I don’t think the fudge will get to you soon enough for the weekend, so you’d best deal with the rest of your cookies.

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  14. Peter, it’s still dark at 6:30 a.m.

    Besides, I don’t get home from work until 7 p.m. or later. No Christmas vacation either like all you teachers lounging around munching on fudge and pancakes.

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  15. Nope, it was quite light out while I was chopping firewood. And the moon was just settling into the western horizon, very beautiful. Moonlight sparkling off of new fallen snow is spectacular.

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  16. Donna- I usually leave the house at 6:30. On school days, I get up and am done with breakfast by 5:30. (Even on mornings after I teach the night class and get home @9pm.

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  26. Never been a morning person and I probably never will be. I do have to get up in the dark (and leave home by 6 a.m.) for the early shift on Wednesdays. That about kills me.

    I’m not as much of a night owl as Cheryl or my school teacher friend who likes to stay up to 2 a.m. and get up at 9 a.m. when she’s not teaching. I’m typically up by 7-7:30 a.m. even on weekends and other days off.

    But getting up when it’s still dark? That’s just wrong in my world. 😉 And no, I don’t find it a wonderful peaceful time of the day, sorry!

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  31. Because of the changes at my husband’s workplace, he will soon no longer be 2nd shift, which he has worked for 14 years now. After he trains in the person who is replacing him in his current position, he will be working 1st shift, starting at 7:00 a.m.

    His sleep schedule has been really messed up lately because of all the work changes. Yesterday he had to be to work at 11:00 a.m., and because two members of his crew didn’t show up (the whole crew is being let go next week, and some of them just don’t bother to show up anymore), it took my husband (and the crew members who were there) until 2:00 a.m. this morning to get the work done. Yes, 15 hours. In a warehouse. On his feet, loading trucks. Then he had to be back to work this morning, so was up by 8:00 a.m. Tomorrow he has to work at 7:00 a.m.

    The worst is going to be next week, when training in the new person starts. My husband’s work hours will be 6:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. Whenever training is done, then my husband will be 1st shift.

    Not easy on a 53-year-old guy, but we can be thankful that he still has a job, which, as you know if you’ve been reading the prayer thread, was not certain for a while.

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  32. A blessed Happy Birthday to you Joe! And you get to spend it with your Marine…I know that is the best present ever for you! Safe travels back to OK…will your Marine be joining you soon? I do pray so!
    Will keep Mr Arrow in my prayers as well…I have difficulty even adjusting to daylight savings time…this must truly be difficult to readjust his sleep schedule….thankful he has his job…but oh boy do we ever need sleep to do our jobs!! 🙂

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  36. Donna, Cheryl is married now, to a man who isn’t a night owl. If I’m up at 1 or 2 now, it’s with insomnia. (Definitely not unheard of.) We agreed to “meet in the middle” by going to bed at 11:00, and some nights he only makes it to 10:00 (like last night). So my first eight years of freelance were basically my chance to be a real night owl. Now I’m back to being like a regular person.

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  37. Our whole family are night owls. We all seem to have body clocks set to higher functioning later in the day. Even when our kids were babies, they always went to bed late. I could never understand people who said they put their babies to bed around 6 or 7 pm for the night. If our babies fell asleep at that time, they’d wake up around 9 or 10 pm and be up until well past midnight, sometimes even 1:00. It was much better to try to keep them up in the evening and put them to bed between 10:30 and 11:00; then they’d sleep till morning. And they’re still almost like that. Bedtimes are 10:00, and it’s a rare night that anyone is tired enough to sleep before that.

    It’s going to be a tough adjustment, I think, trying to rearrange our family schedule to be more compatible with what will be my husband’s work schedule. 😦

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  39. 6 Arrows, I have a brother who has always slept till 11:00 or noon (as far as I know he still does) unless he has an earlier appointment. He is self-employed. He and his wife had several children, but they homeschooled, and yes, their children were on an extreme night-owl schedule too. I can’t imagine how they have managed in college and adult life, because very few people can get away with that sort of schedule and very few experience it in childhood!

    I used to love to spend weekends with them when I was a teenager, though, because at home I had to get up at 7:30 (on weekends and summer) or earlier (schooldays), and at his house I could sleep till 9:00 or even later and still be up for a good long while in a quiet house before anyone else got up. (He’s 14 years older than me, and was married a few weeks before I hit my teens.)

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  40. Hmm, the four younger ones went to bed at six thirty and one or two of the fifteen year olds did as well. They need their beauty sleep as much as I need mine. We have a few that would like to stay up later, but they go to bed because I need my rest and rest time hits by eight thirty most nights. I told them they could sleep in on Christmas but nobody asked to this year. Again.

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  41. Cheryl, point well taken — but your internal default setting is still to be a night owl, right? 😉

    I’ve had jobs where I’ve had to be in by 8 a.m. (it was always a struggle). I’ve definitely gotten spoiled ever since we went to later deadlines and the start time got pushed back to mid to late mornings on regular days.

    I miss not coming home from work earlier, but it’s probably a schedule that works best with my natural time clock.

    I typically now go to bed somewhere between 10 and 11 p.m. which seems reasonable to me — I have trouble staying up much past midnight. And it’s hard for me to sleep much past 8 a.m. at the latest, unless I’m sick or was up half the night for some reason.

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  42. Poignant song and video, Ricky. I love looking at old portraits like that in the video. When I was a girl and did not have a piano at home, I would go next door to practice on my grandparents’ piano in their basement. On the wall behind the couch that was next to the piano was a family photograph with my grandmother, her parents and siblings. Grandma was born in 1894, and I think she said she was eight years old in the picture. The serious expressions they all wore on their faces in those days was so mesmerizing to me.

    Cheryl, yes, I think it can be difficult to manage with the typical college or workplace schedule when one had become accustomed to very different hours before that. Probably taking naps at odd times or just plain learning to function while fighting your body clock 😦 is about all one can do until getting adjusted. It’s not a very healthy way to live, though, IMO, when suffering from chronic sleep deprivation or keeping wildly inconsistent hours. If only all those morning people out there wouldn’t mess it up for the rest of us!

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  44. Everybody is required to get up at seven. Since the small ones have been sound asleep since about six thirty five and will wake up with the others, I think they need it. People are not supposed to use an alarm clock here. New ones try to sneak one in but they are quickly reeducated by their peers.

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  45. 6 Arrows: “If only all those morning people out there wouldn’t mess it up for the rest of us!”

    Yes, exactly my point.

    What is wrong with them?

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  50. So some of those little Idahoans are getting over 12 hours of sleep? I think my kids have lived in the wrong state all their lives — I don’t think they’ve ever slept that long, except when sick. We just might have to move to Idaho!

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  52. And they generally require a brief nap, or at least lie down for fifteen minutes around one or they can not make it to six thirty. Keep in mind they are busy all of the time. Either outside working or outside playing or inside playing or having a story. No television or anything like that.

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  54. When we first got them they had a lot of sleep problems. The only one who still lies awake for any length of time has had her bedroom moved so she is now located in an open area right off the living area. She listens to the sounds of folk reading and is much quieter herself as she drops off more quickly.

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  55. Things like waking much earlier than the normal sleep length for a similar-aged child. Not sleeping soundly (interruptions in nighttime sleep, rather than sleeping one long stretch). Things like that.

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  56. Fifth Arrow is my guy who requires very little sleep. He has not been diagnosed with autism (that’s another story for another time), but he just does not sleep long at all. He is very busy all through the day, yet frequently only sleeps eight or nine hours at night. The other night my husband went to check on him around midnight, and he was still awake, sitting up in his bed reading quietly. The next morning he was up at 8:00 and had a full day. THE BOY DOES NOT GET TIRED!

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  59. Yawn.

    Your eyes are getting heavy.

    You are having trouble keeping your eyes open.

    You are very, very sleepy.

    You cannot keep your head up.

    You are craving sleep.

    Sleep.

    Sleep …

    …

    Zzzzz.

    Huh? What?

    DONUTS? There are DONUTS?

    Where are the DONUTS?

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