Mornings Around Here

I am not really one to ease into a morning...I tend to hit the cold wood floor a minute or two after the alarm goes off with a head full of tasks to accomplish before I toss my work bag over my shoulder and head off to work.  I don't have the luxury of lingering over a second cup of coffee--the remnants of my first cup usually end up in a travel mug that I heat up when I get to work. By contrast, right now, Teri gets to sleep in...

Mornings find me doing up the last dishes from before-bed tea and any snacks we might have had, making coffee, feeding the cats, checking the hummingbird feeders, setting the chickens free and changing their feed and water and tidying their nest boxes, emptying the compost pail, checking emails, writing blog posts--and those are just the usual little bits of must-dos.  Yesterday morning, I was up early to do all that and spend a few hours writing a grant proposal before heading in to my 8-hour day job and this morning, I needed to make cupcakes for our family dinner/birthday celebration for Teri tonight.  As soon as those little chocolate cakes cool, I'll try to get them frosted.  Let's see, I've got 40 minutes before I need to be heading across town...

Alas, there are only so many hours in a day and I confess, I've been getting excited each morning when it seems to be light a little earlier and each evening when it seems more and more daylight is left as I come home from work.  Soon, I look forward to having evenings to do outside chores and just feel like the days are long enough to get all the things done I want!

Lately, I have been thinking about going to 4 ten-hour days for my work week, instead of working five days, but I am wondering about the logistics--does that mean I'll have to get up at 5 am every day to take care of all the morning chores and tasks in order to get to work by 7?!  Sheesh, a gal might as well not even ever go to bed...