Bedtime for Amy this year in third grade is 8:30 p.m. and for Reed in fifth grade is 9 p.m. So I stay up later than them, but not by much. (I usually aim to go to bed at 10 p.m.) Each night I still kiss both kids as they sleep, when I'm on my way to bed. I wonder how much longer that'll be the case? I think it won't be long before Reed is staying up later than me. From time to time, Tod and I reminisce about the old days when the kids were both in bed at 7:30 p.m. That gave us so much "free" time to ourselves in the evenings! So now we get more time with the kids, but less time to ourselves to watch TV or whatever it is we do as boring grown-ups. It's the extremely rare occasion when we'll watch a movie after the kids have gone to bed, even on a weekend...when you can't start the movie until after 9, it's hard to talk yourself into staying up late enough to watch it! Heck we hardly have time to watch an hour-long TV show as it is.
It's hard to imagine that it won't be long before the kids will even be staying out until close to the time when I'm wanting to go to sleep. What then?!? Or when they want to stay our until AFTER the time I want to go to sleep! Ay yi yi! I guess we all have time to adjust before then.
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