Today was sooo busy. Sooo fun! First the boat, then some time in the sand, then back to the pool. That wasn't enough fun, though, I promised the kids something REALLY BIG when we got home. David's coming home from a few days in California and I needed big help getting the house in shape in time for his return. So I made a big promise, one that was so big that the kids worked for two hours straight with smiles on their faces just cheerfully looking forward to earning the prize. The Prize: They would be allowed to stay up AS LATE AS THEY WANTED.
Oh it was so simple, genius really, and it worked. They worked. They truly earned it. As a bonus, not only did they get to stay up late, we brought their sleeping bags into the living room for a slumber party. And had popcorn. In the middle of the night. I really thought they'd both fall asleep half way through the movie we put on, after all, we had SUCH a busy day already, surely they must be tired! But the sheer joy of getting to stay up, having no one tell them what time to go to bed, kept them going until ONE A.M.! Whew! Now its 4:30 a.m. and approaching the time I need to pile everyone into the car to go pick up David. I wonder what Thursday in our house is going to look like with this strange little schedule we've had over the last few hours. Only time will tell!
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