I gave my wife an unusual Mother’s Day present this morning.
It was very inexpensive…
Actually it didn’t cost me anything…
But it is something she has been wanting for a long, long time.
I am one of those annoying “morning persons.” In fact, I am a VERY early morning person. I don’t even like talking about it actually.
My wife, on the other hand, is a night owl. As I am getting ready for bed, she is just getting her second wind. She rarely comes to bed before midnight.
She just cannot understand why I get up so early. Some of it intentional. However, most of it is involuntary. My internal alarm clock is set and I can’t change it.
I cannot understand how she cannot be tired by 9:00 at night.
Through the course of our marriage, it has not been uncommon for my wife to come to bed later than normal and be just in time to wake me up a little earlier than normal. I have even thought that a thief would have a very hard time figuring out what time to rob us. It seems like one of us is always awake.
We have had more than a few fun discussions when that happens.
“Why are you waking up?”
“It’s time to get up.”
“In the middle of the night?”
“It’s not the middle of the night. It’s early in the morning.”
It is all a matter of perspective.
Well, after Friday nights extremely short and fitful sleep, I was past being tired. I was tired when I woke up! And it didn’t get any better as the day wore on!
Much to her joy, I slept in.
You might say, “What’s the big deal about that?”
I slept in until 8:00!
On a Sunday morning!
I have slept in until 6:30, maybe even 7:00, but eight o’clock??? I slept in so late that we missed church! I think the last time that I slept in that late was after I had suffered sleep deprivation for five days during Hell Week of my college fraternity initiation. Maybe I slept in that late on our honeymoon but that can hardly count. In the first place, we had not schedule to keep. Secondly, the whole time we were awake, we were working on getting tired. (if you know what I mean!)
Anyway, it may seem stupid but she was really blessed.
Oh, by the way, we all ate breakfast together late in the morning and I took her out for dinner at night.
