Oct 14 2008
The lion sleeps tonight
It was 9:30 p.m. and the kids were bouncing off the walls, the result of too much Mountain Dew and chocolate birthday cake. (Yes, I know, but it was a birthday party. Life is better when you indulge once in a while.)
Usually a night owl, Paul was tired from a rafting trip and the long ride back on his Harley from southern Colorado. So instead of reading to the kids, he got them in our bed and had Nathan read a book to him. Lucie entertained herself by looking through several of the library books we had checked out. I was working on the computer a few feet away, amazed that Paul can get Nathan to read out loud when I can't.
Eventually the room got very quiet, and turned around to find everyone asleep on our bed. Seeing that Paul had passed out from exhaustion, the children curled up next to him and went to sleep too, surrounded by a half dozen books. I carried the children off to their beds, put away the books, and shut down the house for the night.
The next morning Paul said we are like a lion pride on a television nature program. The big daddy lion is asleep, with the little cubs around him, while mama lioness is off hunting.
Who knew that lionesses had writing deadlines, too?
