2:12
I begin to feel drowsy. Truthfully, I’ve been drowsy all day, an expected side-effect of last night’s family-room-campout, however the drowsiness has progressed into heavy eyes and grumpiness.
2:28
One child has a friend over and has disappeared into her room in a fit of giggles. The other child is busying himself in his own room, building an expansive town out of Lego. My wife is upstairs folding laundry. I am alone on the ground floor. I am undisturbed.
2:34
I have dared to lay down on the couch.
2:36
I drape a blanket over myself, tempting the fates with my desires for comfort.
2:36:12
I am sleep.
2:39
A loud crash awakens me. My body is half off the couch on instinct alone before I calm myself and listen. Laughter. No running. No cursing from the wife. No crying from the children.
2:48
The adrenaline has run it’s course and I am again sleep.
2:49
Another loud crash.
2:52
Another.
2:55
I hear giggling from a different area of the house. Hopefully this means the “make loud bangs” game has ended. Still no sign of the other child or the wife.
2:58
The other child has wandered into the family room and is looking at me cautiously. I feign sleep, hoping he will lose interest and wander back away.
3:00
He has not lost interest.
3:05
He has moved closer.
3:08
My feigning has become reality as my drowsiness overcomes my wariness.
3:10
I am awakened by the blanket being pulled off me. My child places his face inches from my own and proceeds to blow into my nose.
3:13
I shoo him away and am sleep once more.
3:16
3:17
Having seen me move to take the above picture, my child knows I am awake and begins bouncing for joy. On my head.
3:18
I sit up, dumping my child on the floor. He places a Lightning McQueen in my hands while I yawn. Playtime has commenced.
Total Time on Couch: 44 minutes
Total Time Asleep: 9 minutes
All in all, I’d say it was a fairly successful nap.
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