It’s no secret over here that I am NOT a morning person. My brain and body just don’t communicate well much before 9:00a. It seems that the 6:00a wake-up call comes quicker with each passing morning. It’s even harder to peel myself out of my comfy bed during the winter months when it so dark and cold out there. This past week was especially difficult for the whole Bush clan to get out of bed, as was demonstrated by Sarai who I heard convincing herself to just get up, “I can sleep all I want when I get home,” she was telling herself. This was the last week of school before a glorious 2 week break, and because of the busyness of the week, we were all anticipating a relaxing Saturday morning with no rush to get up and get ready for anything. The fact that I forgot to set my alarm for Friday morning and woke up to Micah gently informing me that I had 20 minutes to get ready and walk the kids to school, only made the idea of a Saturday morning sleep-in even sweeter. Friday night came, Bill was out and the kids thought it would be fun to have a sleepover in my room. They pulled all the blankets out and made themselves a comfy nest on the floor by my side of the bed. I put clean sheets on my bed, because there’s nothing better then sleeping in on nice clean sheets, and crawled into bed. Aaah, this is what I had been looking forward to for a long time. I don’t know what time it was, but it was still very dark and at first I couldn’t quite place what I was hearing. After a few minutes of ignoring it, hoping it would go away, I finally gave in, “Sarai, why are you talking to yourself? Go back to sleep!” “Nope” she said ” I’m awake.” “No you’re not, it’s still the middle of the night.” ” GO BACK TO SLEEP!!!” “Nope” she said again. ” It’s not the middle of the night it’s morning and I want applejuice, cereal andI want to watch tv. ” “Sarai, it’s still in the 6’s and anything before 7:00a is the middle of the night, and why am I so grumpy and feel like I haven’t slept at all?” That’s when Jadon piped in, “Oh, you know you and dad got in a mini fight during the middle of the night” “WHAT????” “Yea, it went like this: Dad: ‘Don’t hit me.’ Mom: ‘Then quit snoring.’ Dad: ‘I can’t help it.’ Mom: ‘Then I’m sleeping on the couch.’ But you didn’t go sleep on the couch, you just kept hitting dad because he kept snoring” That explains alot!!! As I realized my dream of sleeping in was slowly giving way to reality, I got up, got Sarai her goods, threw her a blanket and ran back into bed, thinking that maybe I could grab a few minutes of peaceful rest before I had to get up and get the day started. Just as I was drifting off into sweet neverland, the phone rang, caller id said it was Jadon’s buddy. “You’ve got to be kidding me, it’s the middle of the night people.” “I’m not answering it, maybe if I ignore it it will go away,” as if that plan has ever worked for me before. Back to quiet, just a few minutes of uninteruppted sleep and I will be happy and…wait for it…the phone rang again, Jadon’s buddy, apparently he thought we must not have heard the first call. I kind of wanted to cry. Bill is such a sweet man, he volunteered to get up and get Jadon together to go hang out with his friend. He told me to sleep in for awhile and that he’d make coffee and when I was ready, I could wake up to a freshly brewed cup of joe. Oh, I love that man!!! “Thank you, thank you God for such a good man.” Happy thoughts were flowing through my mind as I drifted off for a few minutes of peaceful sle………………”beep” “beep” “beep”…………………..
apparently the batteries need to be changed in the smoke detectors.