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Saturday Morning Meditation

Ah, Saturday. Truly, the one day of the week where I can stay snuggled into bed until I drift awake, rested and at peace.

*screeeeeeeeech*

When my first kid popped awake at 5:15 am, I pulled her into my bed, hoping to snuggle her into submission. Her happy cries of "Up! Mama! Get up get up get up!" woke the other two, and by 5:20 am, I had all three kids jockeying for position in my bed.

My husband did the sensible thing, and got up to make coffee. I stayed in bed, dodging the knees and elbows of three gangly kids, wishing for a magic cloud of sleeping dust to appear overhead. After feigning sleep for another few minutes, I tried shooing the kids out of my room.

"Hey! Everybody out! Go on now! This is a sleeping place!"

No dice. My son gave me a baleful glance and said "Wah wah wah I can't hee-uh you." Elmer Fudd the smart-aleck. The kids wrestled like puppies, giggling and occasionally yelping.

If I couldn't get them to stop, I figured I'd leave them to it. I slipped out from under the warmth of my blankets and shuffled out to the kitchen for my own cup of coffee. The kids trailed behind, peppering my back with a hail of questions. We made quite a ragtag parade, me in my shlumpy sweats, my oldest already bedecked in extra scarves and jewelry over her pajamas, my son muttering random dinosaur facts, clad in only his pajama top and a pair of underpants, and my youngest, hair like a lion's mane, chirping "Yay! Mommy! Yay! You got up!"

Yay. Yay, indeed.

While the kids twittered around the house, tra la la la la-ing about the joy of being awake early on a Saturday morning, I sat glaring into my mug, longing for a few more hours of sleep. I slapped my cup down on the counter and stalked back to my bed. I threw my body back down, pulled the covers up to my chin, and laid very still, eyes squinted shut. Hah! I was a parody of my children at bedtime.

Opening one eye, I looked over at the clock. 5:35 am. Oy. I snapped my eyelid closed, and willed my brain to relax. Muffled outside my bedroom, I could hear the kids engaged in some sort of drama. Unable to relax, I stood back up, marched back to the kitchen in a major snit. I grabbed at my coffee cup and sloshed the lukewarm brew down the front of my sweatshirt.

Tears sprang to my eyes. I stomped across the kitchen to let the dog out. As the door slid open, the cold morning air slapped me in the face, causing me to inhale sharply. My lungs burned from the temperature difference, but my brain cleared. My foul mood evaporated as I noticed the first light creeping over my back fence, turning the dew on my deck to a silvery sheen. The dog slipped past my legs into the warmth of the kitchen, but I stood there, dragon-breath billowing into the still-dark yard.

In the next room, I could hear my children. Their voices fell to stage whispers, and rose to shouts as they acted out a story about a Queen, an Animal Researcher and a Baby Jaguar. I continued to gulp lungfuls of bracing air, feeling the tension leaving my body. I slid the door closed, and felt a small hand on my back.

"Mommy? Whatcha doing?" My three year old beamed up at me from behind her unruly hair.

"I'm breathing, baby." She thrust her arms up at me, and I settled her on my hip. We stood together, our foreheads resting on the cool glass of the sliding door.

"Mommy?" She whispered near my cheek. "I breathing, too."

"Do you see that the sun is almost awake?" I turned my body so that her chubby face pointed in the direction of the sunrise.

"Up came the sun and dried up all the rain..." she sang to me.

She read my mind.


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I wish I was you.

I hate being awake at 5:30am because kids who declare me EVIL for waking them up at 6:40am on a school day are thrilled to be up on a weekend.

But what I hate more, is what happened today (and will happen tomorrow).

Waking at 5:20am because two dogs and five cats are jockeying for position outside of my bedroom door, lying in wait for the moment I roll out of bed to feed them. That jockeying for position carries with it: barks, hisses, scratches, banging on the door, whines and roars (yes these cats ROAR if they have to sit there for more than 5 minutes).

I wish I was you. You're lucky. :-)

Ahhhh, the sweetness of the first light of day and a little person who chooses you alone to start her day with! If nothing else goes right all day those few moments and feelings are too precious to miss. How I wish I could revisit those moments, so long ago.

Beautiful.

Mmmmmmmmmm ... that was delicious to read. Thank you.

This one got me right in the heart. My first thought upon waling is typically, "Dammit" But once those kids catch me in their spell I am all about hugs and squeezes and kissing their sweetness.

Believe me, the early morning barage won't last, so enjoy it while you can because my oldest is 12 and he thinks nothing of sauntering down at 9:30 on a weekend morning saying "Wow, can't believe I'm up so early."

you done good, Jenny. I'm afraid I'd have speed-dialed the gypsies if my kids tried to wake me at that ungodly hour. Thank god and laudanum that they seldom rise before 8 under their own power.

But you've captured that 3 year old youngest child thing perfectly. They are yummy aren't they? When they aren't eeeevil, I mean.

I love this post! For some reason, it's the early morning togetherness that brings out the poetess in me, too. Must be the pain or something.

I'm in love with the 3 year old, too. They're so baby/not baby at that age. The tenderness is so, um, tender.

I obviously am not a poetess at this time of the night.

How sweet. This was a beautiful post.
I love snuggling with my 2 1/2 year old in the mornings.
The description "wrestled like puppies" what a great image!

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