For better or worse, I have to get up early when I’m working in the office. Until the last few weeks, it has still been dark when I’ve been getting up. It’s starting to get light though at the time I get up.

Now, it should also be noted that the time I get up is NOT the time that the children should be getting up.

This morning, I heard Shira getting up to go to the toilet just as my alarm was going off. Here I was faced with a couple of choices:

  1. Get up and start getting dressed, ignoring Shira on the toilet.
  2. Stay in bed a couple more minutes and hope that Shira would just go back to bed (but run the risk of being late for work).
  3. Get up and try to hurry Shira back to bed.

I went for option 3. Unfortunately for me, Shira is quite clever. She immediately noticed that I was up and starting to get dressed AND that it was starting to get quite bright outside. I tried to hurry her back to bed, but she was not happy with this. After all, it was getting bright outside. It can’t be bright at night, night is when it’s dark. (The only exception is when it’s bedtime. It can be light outside at bedtime.)

After much convincing, I got Shira back into bed and was only a few minutes late getting myself ready.

Unfortunately, Shira was pretty much awake by this point and I don’t think she went back to sleep at all!

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