Just now as I was walking past Grace’s room on my way to bed, I had a sudden urge to check in on her.\u00a0 You see, she hasn’t been sleeping well for the past couple weeks and normally we hear from her every so often in the couple hours between her bedtime and ours.\u00a0 So, walking past I suddenly wondered if she was actually asleep.<\/p>\n
I opened the door and saw a quick movement of the blanket, followed by a very still and motionless form lying there.\u00a0 Hmmmm this looks familiar.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I quickly threw off her blanket only to find her buried underneath with her new Leap Pad from Christmas.<\/p>\n
I hear her intake a deep breath, “Okay.\u00a0 I was doing this.”<\/p>\n
Good for you, I think to myself.\u00a0 You admitted you did wrong.\u00a0 (Little proud moment there.\u00a0 Trust me, if you lived in this house, you’d understand.)<\/em><\/p>\n I took the Leap Pad.\u00a0 Told her I’d be keeping it for tonight, that I loved her and good night.\u00a0 And down the hall to my bedroom I go.<\/p>\n Once there, I explained to Stephen what had happened.\u00a0 Then I followed it up with a chuckle and asked him to reminisce.<\/p>\n “Sooo I remember reading under the covers and hiding books, what did you do secretly in your room after bedtime?\u00a0 Did you ever get caught?”<\/p>\n He shakes his head no and then breaks into a blush and a grin…<\/em><\/p>\n “Actually,\u00a0my parents bought an old used black and white tv one time.\u00a0 I carted it\u00a0into my room\u00a0and put it in the closet\u00a0 where I could see it from my bed.\u00a0 That night I rigged a couple of skipping ropes\u00a0that I could pull from my bed in order to shut my closet doors in a hurry if they\u00a0suddenly came in after it\u00a0was lights out time.<\/p>\n Sure enough,\u00a0long after bedtime, my folks came in – my room was across from theirs.\u00a0 I quickly shut the closet doors and suddenly I saw the flaw in my plan.\u00a0\u00a0There was a bright glow emitted from the TV screen in the closet.\u00a0 The volume didn’t hurt either!”<\/p>\n We had a good laugh over that!\u00a0 Sometimes it’s\u00a0so nice when our kids just plain old behave like, well, kids!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just now as I was walking past Grace’s room on my way to bed, I had a sudden urge to check in on her.\u00a0 You see, she hasn’t been sleeping well for the past couple weeks and normally we hear from her every so often in the couple hours between her bedtime and ours.\u00a0 So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,54,39,13,14],"tags":[62,18,5,71,59,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningtogetherathome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}