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WHY am I so tired?!?!


He can stay up all hours of the night

    We are back in the full swing of school and work in the Irvine house and of course the farming never stops. School has been in session for 3 weeks now and I am still not adjusted to getting up earlier! I need to get up at 5:30 a.m. to have ample time to do what I need to do in the morning. Let me tell you what time I have been getting up... 6:30 😒. I have the best of intentions every night to go to bed by 10:30 so that I can get the 7 hours of sleep my body requires (it's currently 10:25 p.m. - let's see how fast I can write this blog, lol) but for some reason it rarely ever works out for me. By 9:00 Charley and Noah are both in bed and Drake is in his room watching Tiktok.  That is when Garrett & I have quiet time. It's important to us to spend time together, just the 2 of us, even if it is on the couch. He's usually watching something I am not the least bit interested in on YouTube and I'm either writing a blog or scrolling on my phone (again because what he's watching does not interest me, but it does him. Don't judge) It's still quality time together in our book and we can talk about all the things we can't/don't talk about in front of the children.  For the past week though I am struggling to stay awake past 8:00 p.m.. What in the world?!?! I like to stay up a little later, but I also like to get up early in the morning before anyone else. That's when I sit on my screened porch (lovingly known as my "pouting room" around here) and drink coffee, read my bible and make a list of what I need to do that day. That hasn't happened since school started, ugh! Garrett is a night owl, comes from 13 years give or take of working swing shift. He is NOT a morning person. I'm not sure how his mom ever got him up for school back in the day. He has probably 12 alarms set on his phone to get up in the morning. That might be a slight exaggeration, but not by far. When I get out of the shower and get dressed, I'm not quiet because it's time to get up, for everybody by that point. Quiet time is OVER 😂.

  Other than school and work and the farm, life is pretty uneventful around here. I'm thankful for that. I don't do drama!  With that being said I'm thinking about "vlogging." I'm still on the fence because it's weird to talk to myself in a camera and put it out there for the world to see (my messy house and all) but I'm thinking about it. I'll let you know what I decide. Sorry that this blog was super random and all over the place, it's an update so to speak. An update on the mundane. I hope you all have had a fabulous August! I am ready for fall weather! It's my favorite season!

Wishing you sunny skies and green pastures,
McKession

P.S. It's 10:56 p.m. I hope I can get up in the morning 😟

 

    



 

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