Morning Hold Out

I can recall being invited to elementary school sleep overs at a friend's house. The excitement and fun was great!  All until the morning. You see, I am a morning person. I get up fairly early every day. Ok, I'm not in the military so I'm not crazy - but you know like, 6:30 or 7:00 every morning without an alarm.

In the morning, I would lay there among the other girls - but not knowing if I should just get up and quietly do somethign (I think that is how I got sooo into magazines - because I could quietly look at them). I would lay there an stare at the ceiling wondering if I should get up and go sit in the kitchen with my friend's parents or just lay there until everyone else was up. Eventually I would hold out until the other girls woke up.

So I grew up, I've stayed my fair share on friend's couches.  That makes it easier to know when they are up - because I could just pretend I was asleep until they made noise and I would beautifully (almost as though it were some sort of coreography) stretch and appear to wake up right then. My own personal version of Sleeping Beauty (not necessarily with the handsome prince kiss to wake me up).

But there have been the few times that I have stayed in the "guest room". I would listen and listen for noise to see if the other person was awake. Going to the bathroom always seems to help (because then you can look around and see if they are awake or not).

There are still lessons that I have not learned as an adult - like what to do when you wake up early!  Does anyone else agonize about being the early guest or the one that sleeps way in? How do the rules change when you are at a guy's house? Do you sneak out? Do you do the sleeping beauty thing?