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My favorite thing is to wake up, stay in bed then doze off again for an hour or two. But that has not happened lately and tomorrow I have a 10AM haircut appt so I won't be able to nap in the morning.

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/smacks y'all that don't sleep enough

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mdom: wtf? aren't we suffering enough already??

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i love my snooze button!

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I never use it, but I should!

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i use it every day! =)

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No, I'll smack you in the head to sleep!

If I COULD sleep later, I WOULD. Problem is I have to make sure my son gets to school on time in the mornings. Kinda puts a fixed point on my schedule.

I'm pretty sure overall that my sleep cycle doesn't fit a 24-hour period.

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i've been lucky - my kids have gotten (and still get) themselves up and off to school when they're supposed to. i don't do 6:45 a.m. very well XD

That would require being able to trust my son to handle a bus ride or a walk to school. I most emphatically cannot do that, due to his disabilities.

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ah, well, there is that then. what time do you have to be up?

My alarm is set for 7, but he usually wakes me up earlier than that. x.x

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my younger daughter starts her day in high school at 7:20. she's not very happy about it,

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I certainly hope by the time my son is in high school that he's sufficiently able to take care of himself reliably. He has all of the requisite SKILLS now, but his ADHD means I can't rely on him to make sure it all gets done or to follow his tasks through to the end without supervision. Fortunately I've got time before I have to worry about that.

When I was in high school, my alarm was set for 5:30 AM so that I could hit the snooze button a couple times in the process of waking up and still have time to get to band practice at 7:00.

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yep, that sounds like my daughter. i'm pretty sure her first alarm is set for 5:30.

she has band every other day, but it's the last period of the day. last year, in 9th grade, she had it first thing in the morning, and this year has decided 'never again' does she want to have band first thing in the morning. she plays flute. =)

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I'm a clarinetist, myself, and marching band practice was before school every day during football season. Concert band practice started at 8 after football season was over.

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She’s in Symphonic Winds, which you have to try out for. All but like 5 kids are in marching band, and she's one that's not. She does theatre, and marching band doesnt allow for anything other than marching band. XD

I was in symphonic band for my sophomore through senior years, in addition to marching band. Marching band was a big thing at my school. EVERYONE in band was in the marching band. :P The only way you got out of it is if you were also on the flag team.

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heh, she's one of the few in symphonic winds that's not marching band... but they wear a marching band uniform. she hates the uniform. a LOT.

Yeah, I didn't like the uniform either. Way too hot, especially for the last concert of the school year.

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she only has three actual concerts - one in december, and she was 'dying from heat exhaustion' on the stage. there's one in may, and then they play at graduation.

i'm pretty sure not too many people actually like the uniform. XD

I didn't so much mind marching in it. I got sweaty, but football season in Kansas gets pretty cold by the end of it. But concerns, where you're performing in a room with hundreds or thousands of warm bodies, while breathing deeply in order to play a wind instrument? Yeah, heat exhaustion sounds familiar.

... geez, that's been a long time ago.

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this year's musical is Pirates of Penzance. she's doing something backstage... costumes, and maybe something else. she really wanted to be assistant stage manager.

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My school's drama team didn't do musicals, just stage plays. I was in The Mouse That Roared, You Can't Take It With You, Romeo and Juliet, and... huh. I know I had to have been in another one, but I can't remember what it was anymore.

I did a LOT of musicals with my church growing up. Having a vocal solo when my voice was changing was... tricky. I lost my access to the part's high note in the climax like a week before the performance and I didn't have time to retrain. I've seen a recording of that performance so I know EXACTLY where my voice cracked.

(Honestly I've always wanted to see Pirates of Penzance.)

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the high school my girls went/go to (the older daughter graduated in 2015) always does a musical, and a few dramas. they've done Fiddler on the Roof, Barnum, Anything Goes for musicals, and i really don't remember all the dramas they've done - there's a fall and spring one each year.

both my daughters do backstage work, and last year when older daughter was a freshman at college, she worked on lights and set for A Chorus Line. this year she did the light design for Almost Maine. we'll be going up to see Cabaret at the end of February - i'm pretty sure she's working lights for that too. their middle school had musical every year, and both girls worked on them when they were in 6-8th grade, which is why they like theatre as much as they do now. older one wants to have theatre as a minor at college. =)

OH! I remember the other one I was in. Night of January 16th. I forgot about it because I had a bit part -- I had the most stage time of any character because I was the bailiff, but I didn't have many lines at all. (NOT an easy part to play when you have ADHD. Have to be at attention the whole time, not distracting from the rest of the actors, and NOT FIDGETING.)

My school did fall and spring performances too. One of my friends played the male lead in The Imaginary Invalid for one of the shows I didn't participate in. I don't recall if I didn't participate in the other plays because I didn't want to do marching band and drama at the same time, or if it was because I just didn't get into the drama team until my junior year. I should ask my mom. She'd know.

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that's pretty cool, Coda!

conversely, i didn't do anything with band or theatre when i was in high school. i was in SADD, and that was all.

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LOL mdom. no novel of conversation? XD

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didn't want to intrude at your conversation xDDDD

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it's okay, anyone can pop in.

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nah... it's a private parent conversation xD

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erm... if it was private, we wouldn't have put it on an open forum XD

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Not even that much of a parent conversation considering I was talking about myself.

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well i was talking about my daughter and you were talking about your son. that could count as a parenting conversation.

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Fair enough, I suppose.

Too bad the count isn't fair.

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*pfft*

that was kinda rude, after our lovely conversation we were having.... =)

Surely Coda wasn't here just to have a chat... always with second intentions!!

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it was a great chat.... and then we got too close to 50. XD

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Haha he couldn't help with that... he helped too much getting to 50.