what the heck is a chimichanga?

I know people talk about newborns and how sleep deprived parents are, etc.  Apparently someone informed my kids that they should be tormenting me in the middle of the night more.  And i know what you're thinking - your kids should be past this.  

you would think.

my kids like to make their own rules, and frankly, at 3 am i'm not too good at being an enforcer.  At 3 am i'm not good at anything but checking out the backside of my eyelids.  Carter has decided that our bed is far more comfortable than his.  He's stealth.  He slips in undetected and usually gets busted when the alarm sounds @ 5:45.  Well, every once in a while he messes up.  Snuggles in a little to close to me and I wake up.  

On this particular night, this happened.  So he wakes me up.  Then, at some point scarlet starts barking at something she sees out the front window, my guess, a frog.  seriously.   Then Sidney, of course gets the memo that we've got a full on party going on.  and the dog indicates that now that everyone is awake, well, she needs to handle her business outside.  

Did I mention that Jason is still sound asleep? naturally.

So I get Sid back to sleep, the dog back inside (after having to go out in the cold to retrieve her OF COURSE), get Carter back in his bed, crawl back in bed myself and Jason starts snoring.  

4:30 am - ish i finally drift off back to sleep.  

5:45 - alarm sounds.

I go out to the kitchen to get the coffee started and notice that the dog has at some point in the night gotten into the trash can and was apparently looking for something that was near the bottom, because most of the contents are now spread across my living room. 

FAB.U.LOUS.

guess who's grumpy!

Jason is showering and is still clueless of how eventful the last few hours have been for me, so I'm filling him in.  

Carter was edging me off the bed, so i get up to put him back in his bed, Scarlet gets up with me and looks out the front window, sees a frog and starts barking.  the barking wakes up sidney and I have to get her settled back down.  Scarlet then decides she needs to go outside, so I let her.  She won't come back in, so I have to chase her around the yard.  It's REALLY cold outside.  I get her back in, get back in bed, FINALLY.  You are straight snoring your face off.  L O U D L Y.  I finally fall back asleep.  Now I go into the kitchen to start the coffee and the dog has all the trash in the living room and ate half a chimichanga.

And without missing a beat, Carter looks at me and says "WHAT THE HECK IS A CHIMICHANGA????"

and just like that... none of it mattered.

 

Comments

[Mom - Vicki Seely]

Thanks for starting my day off with a big laugh!!! Love that C-man!

[Amanda]

LOL! I'm laughing so hard I almost peed myself! I can totally see this happening play by play as you tell it! By the way, I could see this happening to me when I have kids. James can sleep through anything and snores like nobodys business! I would've been extremely grumpy too! But still it made my day reading this!

[Gracie]

hee hee hee :) "while you were snoring" beautiful chaos