Sleep.. such a great thing!

Wow, I have been posting like crazy lately. Hopefully everyone is keeping up with all of my blogging that I have been doing. I have to point out that I now have over 2000 hits on my blog!! I guess that is what keeps me writing. Thank you all who are interested in our life. :) LOL

Anyways, I was on one of my bulletin boards online tonight. It is 'Class of 2020' (that's when Brenna will be graduating) on Babycenter.com. Most of the moms there have kids going to public school (there are a couple homeschooling mom's there as well). There was a thread today about bed times. It had about 18 posts and as I was reading all of them I was just in awe about how early these kids who go to school have to wake up! All of these kids have to wake up anywhere between 6:15 - 7am ---- oh I could not even imagine having to wake my kid up that early. ESPECIALLY with as young as she is. Brenna gets as much sleep as she needs and for that I am sooooo thankful! Sleep is very important, for her development as well as her MOOD! LOL I was reading about how hard is it to wake them up and how grumpy they are all day (according to the teachers I guess??) and how unpleasant they are when they get home cuz they are just so TIRED. I just feel that my life is so much less stressful because we don't have a completely structured bedtime. Now don't get me wrong - Brenna DOES have a bedtime of about 9pm (weekends included) but it doesn't consume our evenings making sure that she gets to bed by 'this time' because she has to wake up at the crack of dawn to go to school. It's really not that big of a deal if she doesn't get to bed until almost 9:30 or 10. If she happens to fall asleep about 9pm then I know that she will be waking up at about 7:45 -- if she goes to bed closer to 10 then she will likely sleep until 8:30 or so.

I guess I just love the fact that, because I homeschool, my daughter gets all the sleep she needs and doesn't have to wake up at a ridiculous time to be sent off to school to be tired all day and made to do stuff that she really is not interested in at all.

Okay, so forgive me.... I have been on this "why I love to homeschool" kick all week - just ask Brendon (poor guy). I do this every now and again and I guess you all will just have to deal with it. HAHAHA!! :) I'm sure there will be more in the coming days. :) :) :)