Seriously?!! 4 oclock in the morning now!!!

After asking my friend to leave, I am now alone and I love the peace. It gets boring sometimes but I can live with it. I usually am busy anyway so I barely realized the silence. The problem is, my sleeping habit is still unfixed. I now sleep at around 4 to 6 am, and that's not really good for me because I have to go to school a few hours later. Right now, I'm thinking I should sleep early, but whenever I lay on my bed I just don't feel sleepy yet, so I go back to mylotting, surfing the net, or watching movies. As for cooking time, I do it when I feel like doing it and it's mostly late night, dawn and early morning too.

I had some of that when I was living with my boys but it quickly stopped. I had house rules--I paid the rent and I made the rules and if they didn't like it, they could move. We made things easier for everyone by having some conveniences. For instance, we had some headphones that channeled the sound from the TV to them instead of broadcasting it through the speakers so anyone could watch TV at any time without disturbing anyone. Lots of cold snacks in the fridge so nobody cooked at night. Pads on the cupboards so they would not slam--they didn't completely close, sure, but it was worth it so I wouldn't be rudely awakened. If they wanted to play video games when I was asleep they did so in their rooms, which were at the other end of the house--not far, it was a fairly small house, but with their doors closed it hardly mattered. If I remember correctly it's your son's house, right? Do you help with the rent/mortgage? Line up some plausible possibilities first then tell him you intend to move if this doesn't stop because you won't compromise your health for their inconsideration. You have to be firm and use every advantage you have, plus be ready to act on your threats. You are all adults, you should be able to work something out. If not, somebody has to go!

Sounds like you are in the same boat my sister is. She has had her pregnant daughter come home for awhile and also her sons family came to stay with her.Her daughter and baby finally moved out recently. She complains to me all the time about the stuff going on in her house. I told her she needs to move out and leave them there. Moved into a place so small that they can not move with her. Then she says,"but they are my kids and grandkids..." So im guessing she just needs to let off steam. Personally theres little chance that anyone would want to move back home with me because im living ina RV with the Kat family of 3. Sometimes the mama, Kitty can be a pest. Especially when she feels its time to eat the canned food and im still TRYING to sleep. She pesters me till i get up. If i lay back down for awhile she tries to beg for more when i do get up. I know better i see the dirty dishes.

Well, my girl friend is the type that gets up at least three times a night to eat something. I totally do not understand that at all. And she has the nerve to complain that she is getting fat. If she just stopped eating at night she might just lose some weight. I am tired of trying to help her with her weight loss. But here is the funny part, after she complains about being fat in the early part of the day, she goes right back to doing that eating thing at night and complains if I tell het to stop. So it is a lose lose situation for me.

No, i never cook and eat in the middle of the early morning, i take 3 meals a day only and no more food at middle time...i can drink water anytime but food, cakes, etc...i don't eat...

hi dear bunnybon, I thought some of your kids were out of your place already - again - so you got some more peace and quiet. Seems not to be the case. Really sorry for you. Got to tell you the best thing when I moved out of my mothers place with 31 years old, was the thought now I can do what I like as its my rented place and if I would cook something in the middle of the night it would be okay as well. I have made something simple like spaghetti or pizza at nighttime back then and enjoyed these midnightly meals. LOL It just was very convenient for me as a true night owl mainly on weekends to have my pizza or what else at nighttime. Now I am diabetic since 2006. Hmmmmm nightly meals are a bit of a challenge now for me as I got to be sure I wont have quick carbs so these pizza and pasta days are over. but I still quickly microwave some wieners or frankfurters and the like when I get hungry at nighttime on weekends when I wont have to stick to the normal schedule of, off to bed at 11:30 pm the latest cause 4 am the night has an end and it means back to work. Something I love now as a quick snack is a small pack of pre fried chicken or turkey strips, dump that into a microwave safe small bowl, add shredded cheese, microwave till the cheese is melted and then garnish with a lot of cayenne pepper powder or, even better, jalapeno slices in brine. Alone writing that post has made me hungry. Its 3 pm here and soon time for a snack as hubby must take his blood thinning meds so he needs to eat first. LOL. i wouldnt mind if he started cooking onions in the middle of the night. If that smell went to my den of a bedroom and wake me up I would get to the kitchen asking me and where are mine? He would just look sheepishly I guess as he doesnt like sharing too much though he comes from a bigger family with 3 siblings and I grew up as an only kid.

NO so much now, but my husbands used to do this all the time. HE loves to stay up super late and when he works a regular 8-5 job, it is not abnormal for him to climb into bed in the wee hours of the morning. I recall at time many years ago where he decided to make french fries at 3am and set the stove on fire. That was lovely to wake up to.

*raises hand* Guilty. I prefer cooking in the early morning when everyone is fast asleep. None of the family has complained about it - YET and they prefer to have a hot Indian breakfast as soon as they are up. They are probably used to the smells and the noise (though I keep that to the bare minimum and I sometimes have soothing Indian music in the background).

yes my son cooks at any hour of the day or night and my bedroom is adjacent to the kitchen so he wakes me up a lot. At least when I move the bedrooms will be away from the kitchen.

no, i don't. noone here but me. U have been threatening to have a major housecleaning for awhile. i think u are overdue.

That is actually my main role at home right now. I wake up at 5 am to start fixing breakfast for my family.. if i wont no one else will. when during weekends i am also the one cooking lunch and dinners... lucky them. lol.

Some of the depression medications that Tom is on really give him the munchies, so it isn't surprising at all for him to decide to fry a hamburger and some onion or something like that after midnight because of the fact that he is hungry at that time. However, if it wasn't for those medications, I honestly don't believe that he would be eating in the middle of the night like that. Most of the time when I'm hungry late at night, I will just munch on some cold cereal or something like that which doesn't make noise to prepare.

Cooking in the middle of the night? Are you serious? I'm an insomniac too and for me this means that I go to bed way after midnight, sometimes at about three in the morning. But I would never be able to cook onions in the middle of the night . Here is the place to admit that I don't cook a lot lately - I live with my daughter and we have different paths every day, plus I work a lot, so At this time I do myLot, browse the net or read books. I have a good book now and if I go to bed early, I'll read until 2 o'clock in the morning.

are you cooking on your own and eating at 4 o clock in the morning,how does it feel ,its kind of strange and weird right.i wont eat at that time,even i feel hungry,i will just go to bed with a glass of water.the food at that time will really struggle to digest and spoil our digestive system

The way my house is set up, it would be my room where the cooking smells would come as well, it is right over the kitchen. I do not really have that trouble, because I have to get up early most days and go to work.I am also the one who cooks. I hear when someone goes in or out the back door, though, because the head of my bed is right over the door. My son leaves about the time I need to get up, so that is good as well. It is a pain if I go to bed early and my husband decides to go out the back door and look for the cat. I hear that as well. My ten million complaints about everything never get heard, though, and I know it. I am grumpy today and I have a pretty serious cold.

Were only too here, I don't have problems with that. But I do have problems at my neighbors who are having a good time outside. Taking a drink and party all night that make me disturbed in my sleep. I plan to find another house to go away from these selfish neighbors.

It's just myself and my boyfriend, and I'm the one who does the cooking, so there's no middle-of-the-night cooking going on here. I know that he's sometimes up in the middle of the night snacking and watching movies or shows online (with headphones on so as not to wake me), but it's not the noise that wakes me up. It's the feeling of his absence next to me in bed. Of course, I'm used to this by now, so I usually just roll over and go back to sleep.

Hi Bunny, it is very disgusting to wake up too early. I love to eat and like the flavor of dishes, but not at the cost of my sleep.