Saved by the 5 year old...again

As a parent, have you ever had that feeling that you should just let your kid do something, and then it turns out you are really, really glad you did? I have had several of these 'feelings' with my son, but never more powerful than last night.

Last night I was scheduled to be on the evening news. My son was so excited that he couldn't sleep. We had agreed that if he went and got a few hours of sleep, we would wake him up for the news. Well, after he got up for the third time wanting to know if it was ten, I went against my husbands wishes and let him stay up. I figured it wouldn't hurt and he wasn't going to sleep anyway, so he might as well lay downstairs with us.

Good thing he did. The baseball game we were watching finished early enough that they had time to air a rerun of "Everybody Loves Raymond." My husband was snoring before the end of the baseball game, and I quickly followed. I woke up once during Raymond, but other than that, I was out.

I was awakened by my son going "Mom, there you are!" I was panicked - what if I had slept through my TV bit? How bad would that suck, especially after my husband and I joked about it?

Luckily, my son had seen a teaser (one of two they did - yay!) and I did not sleep through the news. I thought it was nice that he was totally quiet the entire time we slept until the news began. Just goes to show that you sometimes need to go with what your kids want - it may well be worth it!

Comments

[Dorothy]

Oh man, you actually almost missed yourself being on TV??? God love the little one. What were you on TV for?