The Early Bird Gets The Clock
Do you have some little early birds in your life? I do. I try to get up between 6:00 and 6:30 every morning to have coffee, read my Bible, pray and try to get some blogging and computer time in. For the longest time this plan wasn’t working. The girls were getting up at the same time I was. No matter what! I tip-toed, I tried to step around creaky floor boards, I used a white noise machine etc etc. My girls were still getting up at the same time I was or a few minutes into my quiet time. I was starting to get really frustrated. I got tired of yelling upstairs for them to go back to their room. Then I would hear giggling and pitter patter of little feet coming down. I couldn’t get mad at that! Ideally, I want them to stay in their room until 7:30 am. So I decided to try something I’ve heard and read about.
I bought them an alarm clock. I went to Target and bought a cute, pink, digital one.
As you can see, I wrote “7:30″ on a bright pink piece of paper in BIG numbers. I told Katelyn that they could not come out of their room in the morning until the numbers on the clock match the numbers on the paper. We also set the alarm to go off then too. So far it’s working! They may get up at 6:30 or 6:45 but they don’t call me or come out of their room until that alarm goes off. They’re allowed to play until their heart’s content but they may not interrupt me until 7:30 am. (Unless there’s an emergency, of course)
Works for me!
This post is linked to Works For Me Wednesday over at Rocks In My Dryer.
