Learning "OFF" and naptime schedules collide!

It's strange but I really need to coordinate MY naptime with that of the puppies!  I always seem to miss out and then by 7pm each night the dogs are ready for bedtime... I would prefer going to bed at about 9 or 9:30...but the puppies are drooping at 7pm.  SO...off to bed at 7 pm for the last three nights.  We are getting up at 4:30 AM or so.... which is OK, I usually get up at 5AM anyway.

But next week will start the first week of all-day crating for Cricket.  She can make it through nine hours of sleeping at night, so I figure it's about time I quit coming home at lunch to let her (them) out.  It's costing a lot of time and gas to make 2 roundtrips each day.  It's a 40 minute roundtrip without potty time for a 1 hour lunch break....

Cricket is learning "Off!" this week.  Her favorite place of all is my bed, she's learned how to climb up on the bedside bench (for BonnieBlue to step up on since she's 15 and needs the boost) then hop up on the bed.  When I can't find her anywhere in the house, that's where she'll be.  She also likes my favorite tv watching spot in the little recliner.  So we have many opportunities to learn "off!"