Ten o’clock has always been my time.
It’s the time of day I get a second, (or 45th) wind.
The time of day I’m awake, happy and with John on second shift and the kids in bed, blissfully alone.
It’s the time I bake cakes, decorate cookies, read book, write blogs, edit pictures, and often workout.
Yes, it’s a bit crazy to start a workout at ten pm. But there is nothing better than punching your cares away at the end of a tough day.
It’s ridiculously difficult (my form here is terrible!) and silly to attempt to take a picture of yourself doing a Les Mills Body Combat workout… And just the sort of thing I like to do around ten o’clock!
For certain it’s insane to start to decorate a cake at ten. But it’s a much easier process without my band of helpers.
I do sometimes jot down ideas for a blog post during the day. But it’s not until I’m alone in the evening that I have the time and space to sit down at the computer and really write.
Ten o’clock is my time.
Which is why, on the nights that that youngest girl of mine shows her night owl tendencies, I get a touch irritable… perhaps a smidgen cranky.
I could pretend it’s because I know that if her sisters wake her up early she’ll be tired and difficult next morning. But if I’m being honest, I must admit I turn into a surly, jealous monster because that little girl is usurping my time.
Mama’s need their time.
And ten o’clock has always been my time.
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Behind the Willows 
I’m not surprised that you would stay up late for Alone Time!
Gotta get it sometime right?
LOL, yes, or everybody suffers…
I wish I could stay up that late. I’d be a walking corpse. LOL! Good that you can find that time for yourself. For me, it is my son’s morning nap. He is up by 5am most mornings so 8h30 rolls around and he’s out for a good 2 h. And I totally feel you : I get the same way if he decides one morning that he just won’t sleep. I try not too, I didn’t become a stay at home mom to have alone time, but it does feel nice when the house is quiet and I can sew, write, read or cook. 🙂
Well, I can stay up late but you don’t want to see me in the morning! We might not have become stay at home moms to have alone time, but I doubt rocket scientists chose their field because of the lunch breaks either.
LOL!
10 o’clock is usually my bed time because I tend to get up at 5. I catch my second wind around 6 pm, after my after-dinner coffee.
oof! Five is too early for me!!!
I felt like this when my daughter started to outgrow her naps. I wanted to cry!
I miss nap time too, it makes those evening hours even more precious.
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Wow, a selfie during Les Mills is an accomplishment! Not to mention actually doing Body Combat. 🙂
I’m a Body Combat addict! 🙂 But perhaps you can tell by the lack of sweat dripping off me I was doing far more messing around taking pictures than working out that night! 🙂
‘Me’ time is essential for sanity 🙂 I’m much less physical but I do like t’ai chi.
It is indeed!
I love 10pm!
Hooray for night owls! 🙂