Sundown in the afternoon

 Late in the afternoon or evening, usually 5pm and later life becomes more interesting nothing but evening  news if there is any on the TV, or some old TV shows can even keep him entertained, his usual hobby’s fail to keep his attention.  Movies are usually dismissed as “its not real, so is a waste of time” things that are perfectly fine and even laughed at in the morning will never do during this time.

Getting dinner into him is a chore when in the sundown effect, it’s all too easy for him to dismiss food and say he is heading off to bed no matter the time. Yesterday he said he was going to bed at 5pm the sun was still up and it was bright in the cloudless sky, yet he still wanted to head off to bed, luckily dinner of beans and wieners, one of the meals he talked about having was luckily just finishing at this time on the stove.  

He managed to stay awake for another few hours to 7pm before heading off to sleep. We don’t really care when he goes off to sleep, it’s the early wakeup call the next day, if he goes to bed early surely he will be up at 4 or 5am far too early for us that are usually up to 11-midnight so it usually means one of us being up at 6am just 6 or so hours of sleep and if we are lucky a nap in the morning after someone else is awake.