trying something about it

I really have a hard time getting up in the mornings. I've been a night owl for many, many years and its a shock to my system to realize that my daughter has had the nerve to birth morning larks. Morning larks?? How...how..um..I mean..this is just ridiculous!! It's like some kind of conspiracy or something to drive me nuts! I am really trying hard to switch my infernal, internal time clock to be a bit more in line with these kids, as I know good and well that they're not going to be doing any changing anytime soon. I've been setting my alarm for 7am for most of this past week. Two of the days I managed to bound up and get myself going for an hour before lethargy crept back in to take over. The third day I didn't even hear the alarm until 20min had passed by. The fourth day I heard someone moving in the room and realized that my dear beloved was turning my alarm off because it was bugging him. I jumped up...took my first round of meds and then crawled back into the bed...two hours later I flew out of bed because I needed to be up the first go round...I had intended to go out for breakfast with Scott before heading over to open the bookstore. Instead, I grabbed some breakfast out of the freezer to take with me as I attempted to get to the store before too much time had passed our opening time of 10am.
My plans have been to bump the alarm back to 6:30 for this coming week...then aim for 6am the next....then, if possible, I'll be able to waken sometime before 6 and get into the bathroom before Xander needs it or the twins decide I need to play with them. Maybe I could talk Melanie into drugging them with something?? Nah...don't think that that would fly....Maybe there is some way to get them to begin to turn their time clocks back to a bit more friendly for Nonnas to deal with?? Say...sleep until 7am?