We have just one nightstand, and it’s on S’s\u00a0side of the bed. \u00a0Thus, our alarm clock is on that side, too. \u00a0With my horrible eye sight, even if I squint, I can’t see what time it is the moment I remove my contacts\/glasses. \u00a0That makes for an interesting game this time of year, when the sun doesn’t rise until around 8:00 AM, at the moment M.\u00a0starts letting us know she’s ready to get out of bed. \u00a0Dark is pretty much dark, so when my feet first hit the floor, I have no idea whether it’s 5:00 or 7:30. \u00a0I put my glasses on, try to get my sense of balance so I don’t fall into the wall, then as I head towards the door, I peer anxiously at the alarm clock to see if I should be disappointed (Anything before 6:30) or pleasantly surprised (Anything that starts with a 7). \u00a0It’s almost as much fun as putting all your chips on a number and waiting to see what comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We have just one nightstand, and it’s on S’s\u00a0side of the bed. \u00a0Thus, our alarm clock is on that side, too. \u00a0With my horrible eye sight, even if I squint, I can’t see what time it is the moment I remove my contacts\/glasses. \u00a0That makes for an interesting game this time of year, when the sun doesn’t rise until around 8:00 AM, at the moment M.\u00a0starts letting us know she’s ready to get out of bed. \u00a0Dark is pretty much dark, so when my feet first hit the floor, I have no idea whether it’s 5:00 or 7:30. \u00a0I put my glasses on, try to get my sense of balance so I don’t fall into the wall, then as I head towards the door, I peer anxiously at the alarm clock to see if I should be disappointed (Anything before 6:30) or pleasantly surprised (Anything that starts with a 7). \u00a0It’s almost as much fun as putting all your chips on a number and waiting to see what comes up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,14],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-family","tag-parenting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15415,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/15415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}