Ever since my son was born he has been a night owl. Throughout his public education days it was a major struggle to get him out of bed and to school on time. Once his got out of high school and went off to college I encouraged him to sign up only for afternoon and evening courses, which he did. Thankfully he managed to get through college that way.
Now, however, real life has hit and there are days when he just has to get up early and go to work. It is very difficult to change your sleep schedule around, and recent studies seem to indicate that it can actually be detrimental to your health to have to work rotating shifts. Fortunately for him, he does manage to get mostly afternoon work at his job.
The challenge that I am referring to at the beginning of this post is in regards to when he decides in the middle of the night to cook up something in the kitchen. He’s pretty quiet, but the smell of what he is cooking sometimes wakes me up. Once I’m awake I often find it is difficult to fall back to sleep. I think I need to ask him to refrain from cooking when I’m sleeping – just eat cereal or a cold cut sandwich. Let the mama get her forty winks in!