ciroccoj | We Do More By Nine AM

We're up insanely early and I've already made breakfast for everyone and lunch for Daniel to take to school. We're all dressed and ready to go. And Justin is being unconsciounably loud, yelling and laughing and pounding the piano, and insisting on spinning dangerously close to me as I try to drink my tea, without which I cannot survive my day. And at one point I glance at Chris, who's also looking a little overwhelmed by the volume, thinking, "Welcome to my morning." And before I can open my mouth to say it, he says, "Welcome to my morning?"

That's the nice thing about being together almost ten years. Sometimes, words are unecessary.

Anyway, then we amused ourselves making up a morning theme song, with

(sung to the tune of Alice Cooper's Welcome To My Nightmare)

Welcome to my morning
I hope I didn't scare you
It's just the way we are when we wake up
We spin and laugh and scream here
Cause life is just a dream here
You know that deep inside
You feel right at home
Welcome to my morning, whoa-oh-oh-oh