sleepless..

[smittenbyu]

See this I don't understand. Daughter's in bed rubbing eyes, fighting sleep but stays put and not a sound is made for nearly 45 minutes. You think you can breathe again and throw some wild parties! And then the door opens, a pitter-patter is heard, eyes blasted with the bright light outside and her biggest concern of the moment, "mommy, you told me tomorrow's plan. But what are we doing day after tomorrow?"

So innocently, so sweetly she asks. And I am stumped. I want to cry. But this little darling spent the last 45 minutes of her time processing everything. I always forget not to get her excited about the next day. I know, I never can settle down. But she gets greedy and wants to know the day after. I have no plans. Day after, she goes to camp, I go to office. Maybe we'll go see M&M - I didn't tell her the last bit because she will latch on to it and call him & his mom tomorrow and confirm it!

Did I mention she calls her friends now during the day because it's night in India and in the mornings she calls her grandparents and her aunt/my sis?! She has already asked for a phone for herself - we said we will revisit when she is 12.

And just in less than a minute she was out. sigh.

Comments

[echomyst.livejournal.com]

LOL! Both T & S are the same way, always asking "what are we doing tomorrow? the day after that?" Always at bedtime, or past their bedtime. Smart to not get her *too* excited!

I've never seen you use that LJ icon before :D

[smittenbyu]

it's always fun to have something to look forward to, you know?! :) sigh..

ha ha.. yeah. had that icon through pregnancy and maybe the first few months of birth. Thought why not bring it back?! but will find something else....

[noachoc.livejournal.com]

I don't have any of my own, but from babysitting I've grown accustomed to the wince when, after you thought they were finally asleep, you hear footsteps again.