NOT MUCH SHY OF HUSBAND RUSTLING AROUND BECAUSE HE WOKE UP EARLY, OR MY BLADDER.

My husbands alarm clock. And the fact that the love of my life does not have the ability to be quite while searching his nightstand for his glasses. Aww the precious moments of marriage!

Usually worries get me up so early in the morning, I’m one of those people who when the lights go off, my mind turns on.

4 a.m. is usually a “pit stop” and the furnace kicking on in the winter. After I return to bed and fall back to sleep, my husband gets up at 4:30 because he makes the coffee and breakfast for me when I get up for the day at 6. I am aware of him leaving the bed because the cat gets off my feet and leaves the space he has conveniently warmed for “Lucky”.

My beautiful, wonderful 6 mo. old son is what wakes me at 4 am (or 2, or 5, or whatever time he needs to cuddle and nurse). Or sometimes it’s my 3 year old who thinks she needs to sleep with Mom and Dad.

Susan Cuthbertson - What a wonderful hubby you have for making the coffee and breakfast for you!! Hope you appreciate the gem that you appear to have.

My cat. He always needs to tell me how much he loves me in the early morning hours. Sometimes my bladder, but I hate getting out of bed, because that will wake the cat if he’s not already awake!

I’m usually just getting up at 4:00 a.m.(after being up every 2 hours all night) I love the quiet time before I need to get everyone else up so we can be out of the house by 6:45 a.m.

My internal clock wakes me up at all hours of the day or night, I think it is deffective. Or I wake up to go to the bathroom, or because my 93 year old mom is getting up to go potty and I hear her on the monitor. I have been a light sleeper for years since having 4 kids, all who are long gone. The pattern continued and as I have gotten older, sleep is over rated and pretty much irrelevant to me. I get 5 hours or less a night and go all day without a nap, maybe a 10 to 15 minute power nap but that is it. The only reason I even know I sleep is because I usually dream everytime I go back to sleep.

Lesley — two words for you — EAR PLUGS. Saved my sanity, my marriage, and my husband’s life! Two little squishy foam things, who knew blessed quiet could come from such a strange package??? Oh, sometimes life still wakes up at 4:00 am, but now I just go with it, and with the quiet I can read till I get sleepy again.

My Dog , I don’t let her in my room. So when she had enough of being alone she scratches on the door. Which is always between 4 and 5 in the morning.

HOT FLASHES!! HOT FLASHES!! OH MY GOSH!! Well, what’s worse is going back to sleep after the cool down, sleeping very hard, and dreaming my butt off only to be rudely awaken by the alarm for work — no wonder I am NOT a morning person!!!!

Usually my husband getting out of bed in the morning. He’s such an early bird, that he almost becomes a night person!

I am married to a “narcissist”, I want to know if any of you have an experience to share about living and dealing with such men.

my job has me up at 4am