For some reason, I tend to wake up happy in the morning. I’m not sure why this is, but it has always bugged my wife. She wakes up much like a bear startled by a loud noise in the dead of winter…<\/p>\n
It probably doesn’t help that I like to sing in the mornings.<\/p>\n
I have a couple of different ditties, but the most popular with the kids is…<\/p>\n
Get up, wake up: wake up for your life! Yes, I am a Bob Marley fan. I like to think that he would have been amused by me using Get Up, Stand Up to wake up my toddlers..<\/p>\n A week or two ago, however, I had the tables turned on me. I was lying in bed, feeling sick and sluggish, when N (the three year old) ran into the bedroom.<\/p>\n Climbing on to the bed, he belted it out:<\/p>\n Get up, wake up! You got it, big guy. I’m getting up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For some reason, I tend to wake up happy in the morning. I’m not sure why this is, but it has always bugged my wife. She wakes up much like a bear startled by a loud noise in the dead of winter… It probably doesn’t help that I like to sing in the mornings. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123,122,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddytales-cute","category-daddytales-n","category-daddytales-funny"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6DpYi-6u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pat-matthews.com\/stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Get up, wake up: wake up for your life!
Get up, wake up: wake up for your life!
Get up, wake up: don’t give up the fight!<\/em><\/p>\n
Wake up for your life!
Get up, Hiccup!
Hiccup for your life!<\/em><\/p>\n