It usually happens on Saturday morning because that is just about the only day that I ever sleep in. Other wise I am up at the crack of dawn, yes, that is a actual time. Look it up. The defination is "way earlier than I should be getting up".
My husband is one of those people that don't share my excitment for the early morning interuption of his sleep. We both work and he feels like we should enforce the ban on our bedroom until at least 10am but somehow I always seem to win out on this one and the children come bounding into our room on a regular saturday morning basis.
A funny thing about this ritual is that as exciting as it is, the excitment wains in about 20 seconds and often the kids end up laying down quitely next to us and falling back to sleep. It is like the rooster woke them up and said it is time to go wake up mommy and daddy and then you can go back to sleep for a few more hours or until they get up which ever comes first.
What ever the reason or the motivation I hope our Saturday morning ritual lasts for a long time. The truth is it will probably slip away as the kids get older and then one day I will wake up on Saturday morning and wonder why it never happens any more. After all in only a few years the kids will be teenagers anyway.
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