Mornings are an interesting adventure for us. When we only had a couple of children we could casually get up on the weekend and know that if, on the off chance, the boys were already up, the house would not be destroyed and they would be peacefully watching cartoons.
Getting up before them was definitely not unheard of either. Our Twinkies on the other hand love to get up with the sun. I cannot tell you how many mornings we have awakened by Monkey saying “Daddy, it’s time to get out of bed, the sun is waked up”. Grammatical issues aside, and even though it is absolutely adorable each time we hear him say that, I do love to get up first.
As you may have already guessed though, rising before either of our twins is a major feat. Here I am at 6:30am writing this and I’m literally walking on my tiptoes. The only thing I decided to risk so far is making a pot of coffee, but I was certain at any moment a sleepy eyed blonde 3 foot tall 3 year old would walk into the kitchen rubbing his eyes and yawning “Good morning Mommy”.
Don’t get me wrong, that is another one of the sweetest things for me as their mom. But I do long for just a few silent moments each day.
So as the coffee was brewing (a little more loudly than I was comfortable with thankyouverymuch), I decided to grab my coffee cup.
Now, when you live in a house that is 100 years old, you have creaky cupboards…well, we do anyway, but the mug cupboard was open just barely enough to squeeze one through, so I decided to make that work instead of risking the noise of opening it the rest of the way.
I almost laughed out loud as I realized that extracting that mug from the cupboard was exactly like trying to extract bones from the game of Operation. If I bumped it on the door side, there would be major creaking, bump it on the shelf side and you just have more noise. Thankfully the extraction went well.
Who knew life lessons were learned through the game of Operation? Wonder if any other childhood games will come in handy for the creaky chair I want to sit in to drink my coffee???
