{"id":49391,"date":"2023-05-29T22:59:20","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49391"},"modified":"2023-05-30T22:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T03:59:29","slug":"dad-brog-112-the-inevitability-of-needing-less-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49391","title":{"rendered":"Dad Brog (#112): The inevitability of needing less sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-49392 \" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake.jpg 2250w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake-1024x319.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake-768x239.jpg 768w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake-1536x478.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/alice_awake-2048x637.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">For the last few months, the daily routine has been as such:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The girls go to bed at 7 pm<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">At around 10:30 pm I tell myself that I need to start winding down and go to bed early, ultimately do anything but, actually go to bed at around 1 am<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Alarm #1 goes off at 6 am for me to take dog out<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Alarm #2 goes off at 7 am which I promptly disable<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Alarm #3 goes off at 7:10 am and I finally get up<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Prepare breakfast for the girls<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">#1 usually wakes up by 8 am, promptly comes down to start breakfast<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">#2 is woken up five minutes later, promptly brought down to start breakfast<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Dad mode engage<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">It\u2019s not always easy, but it\u2019s the life of parenting.\u00a0 I wish just once in my life that someone else would do this for one morning without me having to be out of town, but I don\u2019t foresee that happening anytime soon, so every single day of my life for the last year or so has been like this.\u00a0 Obviously nothing involving kids lasts forever, and I knew that there would come a time in which the schedule was going to start deviating, and I believe that time has finally come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Over the last few weeks, more often than it hasn\u2019t, #1 has been waking up earlier and earlier in the mornings, and it sometimes throws a monkey wrench into my morning routine, since when things go tits up and she decides to not be chill in her room and wait until 8 pm, I have to bring her down lest she wakes #2 up earlier than hoped, and she\u2019s a colossal pill while I\u2019m trying to prepare breakfast.\u00a0 Some mornings she\u2019s cool with hanging out in her room and calmly peruses books or plays with her stuffed animals, but usually she\u2019s up and announcing to the baby monitor that she wants to go downstairs, or just whining loud enough to where I\u2019m worried she\u2019ll wake up her sister and things will really go poorly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The easy solution is to just start waking up earlier so that I can have my peaceful mornings of calms before the storms of parenting, but I\u2019m already sleep deprived enough, and I really dread the idea of doing it.\u00a0 I\u2019d definitively have to go to bed earlier in order to accommodate it, but I already feel like I don\u2019t have enough time to myself as it is, and it\u2019s difficult to want to sacrifice even more time for myself when I already feel like I always sacrifice too much of myself already.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">I really am harkened to the days of reading old <em>Calvin &amp; Hobbes <\/em>comic strips where Calvin starts waking up at ass o\u2019clock on weekends much to the chagrin of his parents, and now I\u2019m the square unnamed dad character.\u00a0 But the mornings of angsty kid and grumbly dad aren\u2019t good for anyone, and something\u2019s got to give eventually, and realistically speaking, it\u2019s most likely going to be me.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last few months, the daily routine has been as such: The girls go to bed at 7 pm At around 10:30 pm I tell myself that I need to start winding down and go to bed early, ultimately do anything but, actually go to bed at around 1 am Alarm #1 goes off &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dad Brog (#112): The inevitability of needing less sleep<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,100,193,192,83],"class_list":["post-49391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-angst","tag-comparison","tag-dad","tag-kids","tag-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49393,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49391\/revisions\/49393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}