How have your mornings been?  Since I am awakened several times each night, I'm not sure when morning actually begins most days!  Anyway, I wanted to share what I do love about mornings:  I love lying in bed, listening to who's getting up and what he or she is doing. 

Caedon (8) is usually up first; he often makes it downstairs in time to see his Daddy before he goes to work.  I'm glad they get some one-on-one time.  Caedon is such a great worker; he often has his morning chores done before everyone is downstairs.  ♦♦♦  Sometimes Miss Regan (3) comes and gets into bed with me, and if it's dark enough, we get some cuddling time.  Of course, sometimes she's one of the reasons I'm awake in the night!  ♦♦♦  At some point I hear the baby, 9-month-old Josiah, and he quietly plays or is visited by a sibling.  Since he's still nursing in the night, he's not demanding (hungry) in the morning, and I love to lay and hear him play and guess who's playing with him.  ♦♦♦  That's often Miss Eden (6); she can be very quiet while playing by herself, yet be the loudest during play with others!  She tends to be quiet in the mornings, fortunately.  ♦♦♦  Then there's my Greatest Helper Ever, Miss Sierra (10), who would be our night owl if we let her stay up as late as she wanted to.  She likes to help around the house and visit after the others go to bed, but she especially likes to read, read, read.  I'm shocked if I don't have to wake her up; she's rarely downstairs before me and the baby. 

Our morning routine is that we eat breakfast together, otherwise a child would eat any where from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m.; then you never know when lunch requests are going to start!  Sometimes I don't get to eat with the kids if I'm busy with the baby, but I love it when we eat together and talk.  Once we did devotions during breakfast, and I really enjoyed that, as I felt they were listening better!  I'm hoping when I'm allowed to get more than 2 hours of sleep at one time, I can start getting up before the kids to have breakfast and devotions ready for them.

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Post your own Mondays on Mothering (a meme for you), telling what you enjoy about mothering, then link back to Bow of Bronze. 

Blessings, Danielle

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Posted by LindaBotkin

What a sweet post! I never thought about how neat it is to listen to my children in the morning. I'm usually more concerned with catching up on those missed hours of sleep from the night before! LOL

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Posted by blessedwith2angels

That's so precious. I am not exactly a morning person, so I am less likely to catch everything the kids share in the morning.
Pam

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Posted by ltjewel

That is so fun! I have early risers too; so I hear them coming to my door and then saying, "shhhh. Mom's still sleeping." They don't know I am keeping my ear out for them :). The two oldest usually wake up, come check, and then go back to their rooms to either read or play quietly together. They know once they wake me and the littles up, school starts :). THanks for sharing last week. Sorry I forgot to come read and comment. Amy B http://bowofbronze.com/blogs

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