Every morning at 6 am our alarm goes off. Nathan typically hits the snooze a couple of times before getting out of bed, getting dressed, and taking our puppy, Sasha, out. Then he wakes up our 5th grader, and he feeds the animals (we have four cats as well). He does this everyday, including the weekends (he doesn't wake up our kid(s) on the weekend).
This morning when the alarm went off, he hit snooze. I lay in bed struggling to stay awake so that I could get up instead. And I did! I turned on the closet light to get my Uggs at the same time that the alarm went off again, at which point Nathan realized that he didn't have to get up! I let Sasha out of her kennel and took her downstairs to get her leash. We then proceeded to go out into the 18 degree weather and snow covered ground for her to relieve herself. Then I fed her and the cats (they were meowing very loudly to let me know that they were starving), after which I took Sasha back out.
For ten minutes.
In the freezing cold.
While she searched for the perfect spot.
Which she never found.
Finally, I gave up and took her back in. I watched her as she terrorized the cats (she would say she was simply trying to play with them but they don't see it that way) and tried to eat their food, all the while keeping a close eye on her to make sure she didn't find the perfect spot on my living room floor or stair landing (it's happened).
She didn't. Phew!
When we went upstairs, Nathan was awake in bed playing on his laptop.
That made it worth it. He's had such a long week already, and it's not even close to over. A couple of the neighboring bank branches are understaffed, and he agreed to work overtime this week in order to help them out (it helps us out too because he gets time and a half for those hours). Of course, that means he is putting in six days in a row of open to close hours (8:30-7:15), usually without a lunch break, plus drive time for the other two branches (both half an hour away). There is not much I can do to help him out, but letting him sleep in a little was definitely something I could do!
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