Morning person vs Night person

The street lamps are glowing, the chill of the night air and it's stillness linger, and David's missing it.

For as much of my life as I can remember I have always been the last one in bed and asleep as well as the last one up in them morning. I enjoy the quiet peacefulness that night time brings. But, here it is midnight and I am trying to convince myself that I need to go on to bed and try to sleep.

David on the other hand is on a completely different schedule. Once the sun sets he fights off sleep and with good reason, because come the wee hours of the morning...the hours when I am finally sleeping good and just dreaming good, he is up and enjoying his morning coffee.




Emma is on my schedule. It is nothing for us to bundle up and head out for her last walk at 11:30 or midnight. And I guarantee you that if I would choose to sleep until noon, she will be tucked away, sleeping right beside me.

For years I have envied those couples who lock up and crawl into bed at the same time. You know, like the Walton's did. Everyone snug as bugs in their beds and told goodnight as all the lights go out. That is not the case here!

Many times I have tried. Got up via an alarm clock, filled my day with lots of activity and then crawled in with him. How romantic...until it is 1:00am and I have been staring for four hours into the darkness or peered into that same darkness towards the smoke detector waiting on that green light to change. Honestly, it's torture. Mainly because my brain goes into overdrive and I start fretting and worrying about all the things I can't change.


So, it's after midnight and David's been in there for hours, sleeping like a baby. Emma and I have taken 2 walks, I packed his lunch, studied more choreography, played kitchen fairy and tidied up the kitchen and I have scanned my facebook pages, Pinterest, and now, I have blogged.

Do we have different internal clocks? He is the morning person, and me, well, you know by now, I am the night person.
Yep, different as night and day, and we are both ok with it, it just isn't going to change...we have learned to make it work. I wonder how many other couples in this world share our habits?