Oh dear lord, can someone please tell me whose idea was it to have us kids running around until 10 at night, have homework to do (The Scapel and the Silver Bear and, for the girls, finishing our shawls), and then get up at six. As long as you skip the homework, you get a healthy eight hours of sleep, right?
But you can’t keep not doing your homework.
So some nights you get, like, seven hours of sleep if you just work for an hour, but most of the time, you get less. Personally, I’m up until, like, midnight, so I get literally six hours if I wake up at 6:00 AM. And then there’s some of the boys who get up at, like 5ish in the morning (how do you guys get SLEEP???).
Someone please explain this to me.
And don’t you dare mention our free time, because more often than not, we don’t have any because when we go to Western, we don’t have any because the car trips there and back take up all of the time.
You guys, I’m seriously still stuck on chapter three, because of how long the chapters are! I love the book, I promise I do, but I just have no time to actually read it unless I want to multitask and eat while I do it and be anti-social. I’m going to have to pull all-nighters to catch up, I swear to gawd. And don’t even get me started on the shawls. I still have mine from last year unfinished.
Now you know my inner shaaaaaammmmeeeeeeeeee.
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Kayleen, thank you for sharing this. I was always looking at how much sleep you guys are getting and thinking if it was enough. I think the homework is a great introduction to college because you will have multiple “The Scapel and Silver Bear” readings and work that needs to get done. I’m sorry it’s a lot of work but I’m proud that you’re trying your best!