The worst part is that you get used to it.
My youngest is now 7 years old and can take care of herself in the morning. But I still wake up automatically at 6 in the weekend ๐ญ
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Even if you're exhausted, you're getting up anyway. Your body is now successfully trained to avoid recuperating, no matter how much it needs it.
I'm so tired
I thought parenting a cat would prevent that but that mf yells at me every morning too
I think the meme is made funnier by the fact that you cannot outrun a bear.
You just need to be faster than whoever you're with.
Unfortunately in this scenario, I was not the faster runner, and now wake up earliest
Joke is on you. I was already a morning person and now I am not a person.
work world sorta does that to begin with.
Sorta...
When i was working before kids, i was awake at 7 to be ass in chair in the office at 8.
With 2 kids, their breakfast, school/daycare drop offs, and getting myself ready, im up at 545 to hopefully make it there before 9. Assuming one of my kids doesnt have a complete melt down because the clothes they picked out were "definitely purple" and not blue like they are today
Except weekends used to be mine. I could sleep.
Now the only alone time is when they sleep.
Thats what gets me. I don't have kids but now I can't sleep past nine and that is sleeping in. What have I become!?