One of those Light Bulb Moments
(Of which I don't have very many so let me ramble a bit.)
I think I mentioned a few months ago that I had to reprogram our programmable thermostat. The previous owners were from Florida and had the wonkiest temperature settings ever. At one point it was set to heat to 80 degrees! I thought I was going through "the change" until Kyle decided shorts and t-shirts were appropriate again and I realized it wasn't just me.
And you know how it's so hard to get the kids out of bed in the morning because it's too cold. *whine* ? Everyone always turns the thermostat down at night to save energy and Greg likes to sleep at chilly temps too. It's great savings in the winter but then the reverse is he wants the air conditioning running colder than usual in the summer. I pretend the expense/savings all even out over the whole year.
While fiddling with the thermostat a few months ago, I realized I can change the temperature up to 4 times during the day. Cool at night and warmer in the day were only 2. Then my light bulb moment! Our night time temperature is 66. Brrr... It's hard enough getting out of bed in the morning (want.more.sleep.) but to leave a warm bed to freeze while getting dressed? I'm working with 5 stubborn kids every morning, I need the deck stacked in my favor as much as possible.
So at 6am, the thermostat is set to warm up to 74 degrees. I wake the kids up at
I feel like a freaking genius that I solved the "it's too cold to get out of bed" problem! Now only 5 hundred and 2 other annoyances in the day to solve...
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