Those Silly Early Risers

My ENTIRE immediate family are night people. The average hours my family stays up during the night is 1:30 to 3:30 in the morning and that is during the work week. Let's not even recap on weekends. However, I have always found it easier (once i am up for the day) to be in a better mood in the morning, sociable, cook and clean than the rest of my family. I always thought it strange, but never considered myself a morning person because I am not fully "awake" until noon if I don't have my coffee. Because it is not normal for my family to be up before 9 in the morning, my body has found it more convenient to sleep when the rest of my family gets up. My twin could sleep until two sometimes, when we were growing up. Anja was a COMPLETE night person, sometimes not even sleeping a wink during the night. Now as a mother, her children have gotten her genes... well she is regretting it now. :)

With the new hours pressed upon me at work, I have discovered that my body since childhood has been conditioned to survive as a night person. When truly and naturally I am a morning person and just never knew. Lately my alarm goes off at 7:00 am and during my two hour break from work around 10 am, I go home and clean and cook. I just have all this energy reserved for those hours. Energy I NEVER knew existed before. This just goes to show that me and Anja truly are mirror twins. She the night and complete opposite from me who is the day! In every way this has always been true! it is really interesting the more I study me and Anja's twinnie relationship.

"Lazy hands make a man poor,
but diligent hands bring wealth. He who gathers crops in summer is a wise son,
but he who sleeps during harvest is a disgraceful son." 

-Proverbs 10: 4-5

The Lord knew what he was doing when he created the morning. What I find most beautiful is that I get most things done in the morning but my family and twin gets most of their things done at night. Even as a Mom, my twin still does her cleaning at night. She gets most of her energy when her body is used to giving it. The problem is that I never had energy because my body was never awake to get it. I wasn't a "sluggard" but I can't imagine how much more I would have gotten done if I had discovered this awesome thing earlier in my life. 

As a result, I am convinced that I the early bird can one day get the worm. This is just as true for Anja who can one day catch the fish from the top of the moon. I recommend that each person figure out for themselves what kind of person they are. Are you a morning person, or a night person, and designate necessities for the day according to what type you are. Now that I know that I am a morning person, i need to retrain my body to go to bed early and rise earlier in the day. It will be hard because this is a lifetime of training that I am going up against but for some of you, it may be easier :) give it a try! 

Here are some funny pics I got off Google search and thought you may enjoy! :) 

Enjoy your day!