I love waking up early – how awesome it is to be the first one awake in the family. It’s amazing how much you miss if you sleep in that extra half hour!
Then again, I’m a semi-night owl. I love staying up, watching the stars, watching the fire (if there happens to be one around), and watching great movies.
I think the compromise is taking a siesta everyday. 
Anyway…
My family knows I’m not an early morning person. But it really is worth changing sleeping schedules to enjoy that lovely peaceful time. Read this quote – it certainly motivates me to wake up earlier!
“Early rising promotes cheerfulness, invigorates the system, and in many other ways contributes to health. It also assists devotion. There is a solemn stillness before the dawn of day, in a winter morning, peculiarly favorable to devotional feelings; and nothing is better calculated to fill the mind with grateful and adoring views of the beneficence of the Creator, than the refreshing sweetness of a summer morn. Whoever sleeps away this period, loses half the pleasures of existence. To sally forth and enjoy the calmness and serenity of such a season; to listen to the sweet warbling of the birds; to behold the sparkling dewdrops, and the gayety of the opening flowers, as all nature smiles at the approaching of the rising sun; to join the music of creation, in lifting up a song of softest, sweetest melody, in praise of their great Author, is no common luxury.”
~ Harvey Newcomb “Young Lady’s Guide” pg. 178-179
