My "nap"

Last night, after kids were in bed, I decided to stay up and read. Now, reading doesn't happen very much here. At least not the adult kind. I read all kinds of Dr Suess, Max, Thomas the Tank and Clifford. But a good novel is usually grabbed in quick one paragraph increments while brushing my teeth or hiding from my kids. But last night, I saw my opportunity and grabbed it... and ended up reading til 1:00 in the morning. Somehow my little boys did not get the memo that they were supposed to sleep in, so they woke up, bright and early, at 7:00, just as they usually do. Six hours might almost be enough for most people, but keep in mind, Noah doesn't sleep well. He came in three times last night and had to be promptly escorted back to bed, which is, thankfully, Jeremy's job. Adam does better than his two and a half year old brother, but he woke up twice. So, five times in six hours. Not very restful.

By 1:30 this afternoon, I was starting to drag, so I put Adam down for a nap, put a movie in for Noah, and naively thought I might be able to take a quick nap. Noah quickly let it be known that it would not be happening because despite all my best efforts to ignore him and redirect him, he would not let me rest. First, he ran his chunky little fingers through my tangled bed head, tweaked my nose, saying "nose" each time, pulled my earlobes, felt my eyelashes, sat on my head and gave me smooches. On a side note, I really need to brush his teeth more frequently, but after a half hour of this, I grabbed him and pulled him into a hug and preceded to give him the best tickling he's received in a long time. I love his laugh. I remembered again what I've always known and that is that I have the very best job in the world. I'd like to say I'll go to bed earlier tonight but I'm on book four of a four book series and I don't want to lie to you. I may just be tired for a while.