This is the true story of how Awake Matt got screwed by Sleeping Matt.
Thaddeus starts crying. I wake up to handle it, thinking it's the middle of the night. My trusty cell phone clock reads 5:45am. (In our house, any time after 5:30am means a legitimate get-up time--before 7:00 is not preferred, but definitely normal.) I do a little jump for joy in my sleepy brain.
Me: Matt, get up. Thad's crying, and it's your morning.
Matt (very groggily): Huh? No, that was yesterday.
I stare incredulously into the chasm of early morning darkness that is his side of the bed.
Me: I don't think so.
Matt: Hmm... I'll just go back to sleep.
My irritation at the not-at-all-new situation wakes me up the rest of the way, and I rescue my son before his wailing rouses the princess.
LATER ON THAT MORNING
I exact my revenge by letting the dogs be Matt's alarm at 7:30am.
Matt (covered in puppy love): Well played.
Me: Do you remember earlier this morning?
Matt: No.
I recount the conversation we had earlier.
Matt: Sorry.
Me: Well, it just means you get to do two days in a row now.
Matt: Shit.
Side Note:
For the record, we will never be even in this matter (the waking up with children matter, that is). I will always be ahead. It is just easier for me to get up and get started with the day. The kids/dogs inevitably wake me first, and I either just do it or fight with Matt to get them. He is very good at pretending to be asleep. But just because I often can't fall back to sleep after coercing him out of bed doesn't mean that bastard gets to sleep in ALL the time! (Yes, it's very sad that 7:30 is considered "sleeping in" over here.)
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Ohhh Jack thinks that 5:45 is the cool time to wake up too! It kills me, because I get up with Chuck at 4:45 and pack his lunch and send him off to work at 5:15 and then crawl back into bed, excited to sleep for at least another hour, two if I'm lucky and then I hear Jack's little cry and I WANT TO CRY TOO.
ReplyDeleteBut yeah, I think it's just another one of those special mom things that you'll always be ahead. I think that's why Mother's Day is a bigger deal that Father's Day. Or at least it should be...