A Mother's Morning

I have been trying to fight off a cold that I have been feeling coming for a couple days so in the morning I am feeling pretty beat. Well, this morning Kayli woke up earlier than usual and she was calling her daddy to come and get her. It was 6:30 and Travis was long gone for work and I knew that Canyon would wake up around 7:00 to get ready for school so I asked Kayli if she would like to come and sleep in my bed. She was all about that. (we don't usually allow that) So, in my zombie, "I need more sleep" state, we return to my bed. I am thinking that she seems tired enough that she will hold still and let me sleep. So, Kayli lays in Travis' side while I try to get another half hour of sleep. I feel Kayli scooting close to me and she is facing me. I feel her hands on my face and I open my eyes. If you don't know Kayli very well, she is the most loving and cuddly little girl I have ever seen. She is looking into my face and is so close that my eyes go crosseyed. Then she begins to rub her cheeks on mine and she says over and over, "Mom, I wuv you so much!" I mumble it back and turn over and she begins to rub her feet all over me and rub my arms and she asks me over and over if I am tired and I just keep saying yes, thinking maybe she will let me sleep. Then she says, "Oh, you ought to go to sleep". Well, Yeah! Then she starts to complain that she is squished and that I should go to the other side of the bed. (The side she had abandoned to scoot close to me). Oh Boy!

After a half hour of this, I hear Canyon open his door and he comes in with a superhero mask in his hands and without a "good morning" says, "mom, will you tie this on?" So I sit up to tie on the Superhero mask for about the umpteenth time and Kayli scoots into my spot and tells me to go to the other side. I am feeling defeated. Canyon returns with more superhero accessories to pin on and I know that is the end. I have given up on the sleep thing. I start to stand up and Kayli says, pointing to the spot she had already taken over, "Mom, are you done?" I just laugh and say "yeah" and she settles nicely into my spot and says, "Mom, I am still tired. I want to go back to sleep."

On to breakfast. I will tackle my cold with a nap some other century!