December 6, 2009

• Kidnapping

  Liza took a two and a half hour nap yesterday afternoon at our insistence so she’d be rested and fresh for the Christmas Parade last night.  She was perfectly behaved, as she is when she’s rested, but it took a little while to get her to sleep last night.  We were fine with that, and we stayed up pretty late, too.

  This morning, Beth woke up at ten o’clock, and I was still asleep.  She bolted out of bed because she was sure Liza was in her room, crying her eyes out because she thought she had been abandoned.  Beth raced down the hall to Liza’s room, but her room was empty.  There was a note on the door that said, “I’ve got Liza.  Love, Cat.”  Her mother had come to get her before any of us were awake (including Liza), and they were gone by the time we got up.  I didn’t wake up until 10:30, way too late to go to 10:15 Mass.  Oops.

  Beth and I trained our children when they were small not to wake up their parents.  Apparently that lesson took with Catherine, and this morning it was much appreciated.  We rarely sleep late, but we did today.  Ironically, I’m almost ready at 11:00 o’clock to go to sleep again.

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