Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Middle of the Night

As I was peacefully dreaming of cost-free relaxing vacations on beautiful islands and calorie-exempt desserts, I was awoken by a shrieking little voice yelling, "Mommy! Mooooom! Mommy I have to peeeee!"

So I got up and helped the little guy to the bathroom. Both of us, in a half drunk stupor, made it there and back. As I was tucking Devin back into bed he asked me, "Can I be done sleeping now?"

"Uhhh, no Devin its 1 am. Its still the middle of the night." I told him and I kissed him goodnight and went back to bed.

A few minutes later he was coughing repeatedly and I knew it wasn't going to stop. <His asthma has been really bad lately.> I went and got the Nebulizer and medicine and brought it into his room. I entered into my "Nurse Mommy" roll and administered the Neb while Devin lay half-asleep.

When it was done, Devin asked me, "Are you going to watch the news now Mommy?"

"No, Devin. I am going to WASH the Neb and go back to bed."

"Yeah, its the middle of the night." Devin said.

3 comments:

Joanna said...

The most important thing that mommies fail to teacher their children? How to call for DADDY in the middle of the night. I hope you get a better nights sleep tonight.

Mel said...

That would have been a nice dream to continue. Hope you were able to go back to it!

Lisa and Curtis said...

Oh man:( I hope you were dreaming about discount shopping in Hawaii! lol {After all those pics I showed you LOL}

Hope you are sleeping better tonight my friend!