<p>Carolyn:</p>
<p>If it has never happened before that you went over like that, you could ask for a courtesy discount…we had a similar problem after adding a line to a family plan, we used more than our rollover minutes…it took some talking, but the company did split the overage with us! It still hurt, but not quite so badly!</p>
<p>Oh Carolyn, that is the cutest story ever. Sorry for the big phone bill, but that is just the best. </p>
<p>UMDAD, LOL times 10 about the voices in your head. Too funny!! :)</p>
<p>I feel so old now because 9 p.m. comes around and I can’t wait to hit the sack. I mean, I look FORWARD to sleeping as much as I used to look forward to getting dressed up and going out (in my 20s), and as much as I used to look forward to watching double-feature movies on the couch with H (in my 30s). Now I’m lucky to make it through one DVD without falling asleep and my Friday and Saturday nights are all about recovering from the week. It’s true that H and I are getting up at 5 a.m. every day for our new workout routine, but we actually turned off the outdoor Christmas lights at 8:30 the other night and turned in, which is pretty pathetic under any circumstance and at any age, except maybe for 80 and above or 8 and under. And to think I used to be a night owl.</p>
<p>momof2inca: I can totally relate. I’m happy to be in bed by 9:30 most nights, and happy enough just to lie there and stare at the ceiling… LOL :)</p>
<p>all geniuses have had weird sleeping patterns.</p>
<p>Threads like this one make me so glad I read CC!</p>
<p>We also refer to our HS S as a vampire! And D is home from school doing the marathon sleep thing as well! Our dogs wake up howling when the paper boy delivers the paper at 5:30am and kids sleep right through it!</p>
<p>Does this extend to daughters and husbands? I’m the only one awake right now (besides my faithful Labrador).</p>
<p>martinibluex,</p>
<p>What a wonderful, hopeful explanation!! (post 24) Happy holidays to you!</p>
<p>Fireflyscout, I confess I love the early morning hours alone with my thoughts (and my friends on CC.)</p>
<p>i usually come home around midnight-one on nights when i work the next day, and usually two-three on nights i have off the next day. people are used to it by now.</p>
<p>Our HS senior has been driving us crazy this fall by wanting to stay up until midnight and then having to get up at 6:40. On weekends he stays up even later and then sleeps in until noon, if not later. Early case of senioritis? He says that he’s just not tired until midnight and doesn’t need that much sleep… except that his body is obviously trying to make up for it on the weekends.</p>
<p>What kind of world records are our kids trying to achieve? I wondered aloud Christmas Eve whether DS would awaken at all Christmas morning for opening presents. Not to worry - he was ready bright and early at 7:30 am — having never gone to sleep yet! He was resurrected again for a nice family dinner and game of dominoes. </p>
<p>Whatever works. But I have to say, along with several others, that it is only by comparing notes here on cc and with other parents IRL that I have avoided mega-worry about these sleep patterns. Why is it that it seems ok just because so many other kids are doing it? Wasn’t there a phrase (perhaps being heard right now by UMDad in his parents’ voices) along the lines of “If everyone else jumped into the lake…?”</p>
<p>jmmom, I love your story about your son still being up! </p>
<p>S2 got up last night at 9:45 after going to bed at 1:30 p.m. (you read that right) and was up all night too. Makes it mighty hard for SANTA to put out the STOCKINGS, as I pointed out to him! It was role reversal in the extreme at 9:00 a.m. today when he pointed to the bedroom door where DH was still sleeping and said “What time do you thing HE will be getting up?!?” I said, “Oh, maybe an hour . . .” :)</p>
<p>Not a single person in my suite at UVA went to be before 5am this semester. Ain’t nothin’ like staying up to watch the 5am episode of Jerry Springer, falling asleep at 6:30 (as the sun is coming up) and rolling out of bed at 8:50 to get to a 9:00am physics exam! My roommate stayed up til 7am playing a computer game the night before a 9am final in his greek history class, slept until 10:30, got to class at 10:45, and still finished the exam on time. I think he got an A.</p>
<p>you are all kidding yourselves…sounds like drugs</p>
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<p>Jeremy has it, too.</p>
<p>Jmmom, </p>
<p>I have decided that whatever trait of Jeremy’s is not found in one son is found in my other son. I feel like someone is spying in my house!</p>
<p>wow, I thought my son was the only kid! see now niave I am. But I have always been a night owl, never could figure out why bars closed at 2am. my son is a blinding white color, same as me. we definitely do not go out without sunglasses…</p>
<p>carolyn, I would happily pay my son $568 to give a %#$ about Ancient Greek or any other quasi-academic interest!!!</p>
<p>I remember a person from college who had a BF abroad and who, after talking to him for hours one night, simply left the phone off the hook and went to sleep; later she challenged the bill as incorrect based on 12 hour phone call-- and didn’t have to pay for the 3 hours she’d actually talked!</p>
<p>Having an 8 year old makes it darned hard to sleep past 10, 10:30 at our house unless he’s on a sleepover.</p>
<p>Good to hear my HS senior is properly training for college life. Rarely asleep before 1 am, constantly disappearing to take naps. Not uncommon in the fine arts world; I remember on the RISD tour that one of the dining halls stayed open until 2 or 3 am…</p>
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