Tessie is such a creature of habit too. She gets up with my husband in the mornings around 6:30-7am and he takes her to my mom's office around 8-8:30am. She's up all day so by the time we get home around 7pm- she is really tired. So I always fix her a blankie on the couch and she sleeps while we watch tv. She'll get down a couple of times to eat/drink. She stays with me downstairs until I take her up to bed and then she snuggles up between me and her daddy to sleep