Sun­day morn­ings are a spe­cial time at our house. The one morn­ing of the week no one has to get up and get mov­ing. A morn­ing made for sleep­ing late — some­times until 8 am — and let­ting the day come to me instead of me attack­ing the day. It is a relax­ing time that I truly enjoy.

My usual rou­tine is to wake with­out an alarm clock and sim­ply lay in bed for awhile think­ing, some­times drift­ing in and out of a light sleep until I decide it is time to phys­i­cally get up. Let­ting my mind wan­der dur­ing this time always brings up some inter­est­ing thoughts and mem­o­ries. The type of things that often have me ask­ing, “where did that come from?”

Even­tu­ally, the call for cof­fee will drag me out of bed. If my wife has already got­ten up and made it, then I will rise ear­lier, drawn by the won­der­ful aroma. There is noth­ing bet­ter than wak­ing to smell of cof­fee — except maybe wak­ing to the smell of bacon! If I am the first to rise, then I am the maker of the java, which I duti­fully start brew­ing before crawl­ing back into bed until it is done.

I find Sun­day morn­ing cof­fee goes great with a lit­tle Inter­net brows­ing. I like to spend an hour or so read­ing the news, check­ing Face­book, and even­tu­ally read­ing up on the lat­est Web  devel­op­ment tech­niques. As a Web devel­oper, con­stant research and acquir­ing new skills is a manda­tory part of my job.

We typ­i­cally don’t even get to break­fast until late morn­ing. But with bacon, eggs, and bis­cuits on the menu, it is always deli­cious and will usu­ally carry us through to an early dinner.

So what is your favorite part of Sun­day morning?