Good Morning Starshine, The Earth Says Hello!

What gets you out of bed in the morning? I have noticed as the days grow colder and darker, my bed gets warmer and cozier, and my desire to get out of bed grows smaller. It seems to take a superhuman effort just to rise and shine forth everyday. (Okay, so maybe I just rise, shining is pushing it!)

I have never really been a morning person -- you can ask anyone in my family, they know. I am woman of the night! All of my energy comes surging through my body at around 8:00pm in the evening. I usually feel wide-awake and ready to go as the day grows to a close, but in the morning . . . I am at a loss! I have decided that there is plenty of time in the day, there is just not enough time in the night!

I can hop out of bed a lot easier in the summer when it is hot, but winter, well, winter brings out my Alaskan-hibernation instinct. I just want to get warm, and stay warm! Right now, the first thing I have to do when I wake-up is drive in the car for about 40 minutes to take kids to school. It is dark when I am driving, and freezing, and sometimes the flashing red car-blinker lights can be so hypnotizing . . . but I have to be alert and awake on the drive to the junior high -- it can be an adventure in the parking lot!

So what does it for you?

What motivates you to pull yourself from under the covers and face the new day? What causes you to be alert and happy in the morning? What puts a sparkle in your morning eye?

Is it exercise? Is it oatmeal? Is it the anticipation of seeing your children's sweet faces? Perhaps it is a green power-smoothie, or a chance to the see the sunrise, or maybe you just cannot wait to wake-up and read my blog?

What gets you going?

As the mornings grow more difficult for me to face, I find myself understanding why so many people drink coffee to "wake-up". I am Mormon, I don't drink coffee. Plus, even if I weren't Mormon, it really isn't good for you, so I probably would not drink it anyway. And I always will be Mormon, so drinking coffee is never an option, so I have to think of something else!

Coffee is out of the question for me, but I am growing sympathetic to the reasoning behind needing a "jolt" first thing in the morning to get you going . . .

So what is your "jolt"? What makes you hop happily out of bed each morning? I am really curious about this, and looking for some motivation. I don't have a jolt. I just slug my way around until I finally come-to while I am driving the kids to school like a zombie-mom. You can ask my kids, they'll tell you -- ZOMBIE!  

Oh, but don't tell me to exercise first thing in the morning, cause early morning exercise is not going to happen. I workout after I get home from dropping the kids off at school. I am looking for something else . . . something, I don't know . . .  what do you got?  HMmmmmm???

If you don't have any inspiration for me, then I will have to settle on waking-up with the words of, "Good Morning Starshine," in my head. I am pretty sure these are the best. lyrics. ever. You just can't beat lines like, "Giddy glub gloopy nubby nibby noopy." (Whoa, my spellcheck went crazy with those words!) I mean, come on? This is good stuff! Whoever it was that wrote such articulate lyrics is brilliant!

If you don't know this song then google, "Good Morning Starshine," to listen to it.

Good morning star shine, the earth says hello
You twinkle above us, we twinkle below

Good morning star shine, you lead us along
My love and me as we sing our
Early morning singin' song

Gliddy glub gloopy nibby nabby noopy
La la la, lo lo
Sabba sibbi sabba nooby aba naba
Lee lee, lo lo
Tooby ooby wala
Nooby aba naba
Early morning singin' song

Good morning star shine, the earth says hello
You twinkle above us, we twinkle below
Good morning star shine, you lead us along
My love and me as we sing our
Early morning singin' song

Gliddy glub gloopy nibby nabby noopy
La la la, lo lo
Sabba sibbi sabba nooby aba naba
Lee lee, lo lo
Tooby ooby wala
Nooby aba naba
Early morning singin' song

Singin' a song, hummin' a song
Singin' a song
Lovin' a song, laughin' a song

Singing a song

Sing the song
Song the sing
Song, song, song sing
Sing, sing, sing song

Song, song, song sing
Sing, sing, sing song

See, I told you, this song is brilliant! You are welcome for this song now stuck in your head. :-) 

So what does it for you? What makes you pop-up like toast in the morning, and prance around like a fairy princess all day? I really want to know!