Do you ever have those days when you just wish you could pull the covers up over your head and stay in bed for a few more hours? I certainly do, and so does my son. He’s a bear in the morning – there is no “right side of the bed”, it’s almost always the wrong side. I’m hoping that hanging curtains over his window will entice him to stay put a bit longer to sleep off the crabbiness!

Thank goodness though, he hasn’t hit the stage where he has faked an illness to avoid going to school. And most times if no one else is awake, he’ll just crawl in the chair with a blanket and take a little snooze until someone else stirs.

My grandfather was the oldest of six children and I’m sure his parents heard many excuses as to why to not get out of bed, or do chores, or go to school. But one of his brothers, Charles, found a creative way to avoid waking up.

If that would’ve been me hiding in the closet, I would’ve realized that I needed to use the bathroom, then my brain would’ve started going through the list of things I needed to accomplish that day and I might as well have just stayed up.

Until we walk again …