She’s a Funny One

The other day my father-in-law spent the night after attending a Giants game with Liz. Since Grandpa was there to distract the kids, Liz let me sleep in until 9:30 at which point Thomas announced that he was going to go upstairs and “give daddy a snuggle.”  So the whole troop marched up stairs and proceeded to pile onto the bed and me.

(Everyone except my father-in-law that is. He and I get along swimmingly, but I don’t think either of us is ready to take it to the next level.)

Of course I knew my lazy morning was over the moment the kids entered the room; I resigned myself to jostling, poking and prodding until they forced me out of bed.

Then Thomas snatched my iPhone off of my nightstand and fired up Kung Fu Panda.  He and Caroline huddled up around the small screen and watched in silence while Liz and I dozed. For an hour. It was like a television commercial: American Family on a Lazy Saturday Morning (brought to you by Apple and Dreamworks).

Once it was all over I remarked to Liz about the miracle we had just experienced.  She smiled looked me in the eye and said, “must be time for another one.”