“Mom, please, Please, PLEEEEASE! Can you leave me in charge? I am 5 years old now. I can do it.”
“Sure fine, Hayden. You can be in charge. Now what movie do you want to watch?” I asked with an exhausted sigh.
There was at least 45 minutes, 60 tops, left of Jake, Quinn and Claire’s nap time and all I wanted was to lay down for 20, maybe 30 minutes and take a power nap.
“Now sit nicely and watch your movie. I am going to lay down.” I instructed as I left the room.
“Alright, Mom. But I am in charge, right Mom?” Hayden called after me.
I mumbled something to him, hoping that he would just be quiet. The siren song of my bed was just too strong and I couldn’t ignore it any more. I wanted to curl up in the covers and go to sleep.
As I pulled the covers back and got into bed, I heard Claire moaning on the baby monitor. I thought nothing of it because she will do this every so often in her sleep. Once I was in bed, snuggled up tight, I listened again.
Nothing. Silence.
“Yippee!” I thought to myself, “This is actually going to work. Power nap, here I come.”
I closed my eyes and willed myself to sleep as fast as possible when I heard this over the baby monitor, “Claire. Claire. Its alright, honey. You can get up now. Mommy is asleep and I am in charge. Come on downstairs with me.”
Really, I rolled my eyes in my head. I guess I forgot to give Hayden the memo about Claire’s moaning.
“Come on, Quinn. You can come too.” I again heard Hayden on the monitor. I listened to the kids walk downstairs. I was hoping that they would just watch the movie and I could still get my power nap. There was still hope for this nap.
“WHAAAAAAA!” I heard Quinn’s distinctive ‘Mommy where are you?’ cry.
“Here Quinn, I will take you to Mommy. She is in her bed. See, Hi Mommy, here she is. Get up there and jump on her.” And with that statement. I resolved never to leave Hayden in charge again.
Good bye power nap. Someday, we will be together again.
