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the bond between sisters (or the one where I just want her to turn her alarm off)

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5:00 am – Alarm goes off. I hit snooze.
5:09 am – Alarm goes off. I hit snooze.

I do this 5 more times until I finally decide to drag myself out of bed at 5:47am. Yep. Now I’m running late.

I’m not a morning person. I don’t like getting out of bed.  And I don’t like getting out of bed that early.  Funny thing (or maybe not so funny), I have to do this every morning.  I’m not always late.  But repeatedly hitting the snooze button is common.

Start working my way through my routine and I hear Rachel’s alarm going off.

“Why is her alarm going off at 6am? She doesn’t have to be up until 7”

I keep getting ready (remember…I’m late)

I look in my bed. Nope she’s not there.  Right, I sent her back to her room in the middle of the night.

Gotta get dressed.

“Ok, kid.  Turn the alarm off already.  Is 6:09 am and this is annoying now!”

I laugh. She’s like me. She can sleep through an alarm.  I’m impressed…a little.

Strangely, it’s not waking anyone up.

I make my way down the hall to get her to turn it off.  She’s not in her bed.  I turn the alarm off.

Back to my room.  “How did I miss her?  When did she crawl back in my bed?”

Not there.

I go back down the hall to check to see if Lauren is in her bed.

This is what I find….

How can you be annoyed at this?!?!  I love these two so much!!

With a full heart, I make my way downstairs and off to work.  Happy Friday!!

Do your kids do things that surprise your every once in a while??

"The phone’s for you"

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There are some very well documented milestones. These milestones are blogged about, tweeted, and people change their facebook status to rave about these!  And they should be proud…doing #2 on the toilet is a huge deal!

But last weekend we experienced a milestone that no one told us about.  It’s not like I didn’t know it was going to happen.  It happened to me…I just don’t remember when!  There was no warning!!

I had google this to see if anyone documented anything?!?!  

“Kids receive first phone at the average age of 8” — http://bit.ly/VU2knc 
 

Yay, Rachel!  She won’t be 8 until next month.

But it was very surreal.  The phone rang….

Me: “Hello!”
Person on phone: “Hello, this is K. May I please speak with Rachel”
Me: “Just one moment”

Craig looks at me very inquisitively. “Who’s on the phone?”
Me: “Rachel’s friend, K.”

I walk to Rachel’s room, hand her the phone.  “The phone’s for you. It’s K”

Her face lit up like Christmas morning!

They chattered back and forth. Then Rachel asked if she could go to K’s place on Sunday.  We had to be at church for the Turkey Dinner so she was free to go.  I asked to speak to K’s mom.  We finalized the plans.  I hung up the phone.

Wow.  Rachel got her first phone call.  Not yet 8.

It has begun.