Twelve Things To Do at 3:14 a.m.
Here are twelve things to do when your kid has you up in the middle of the night.
- Make sympathetic noises while patting child on the back.
- Turn on a closet light but shut the door as a get-well lowlight – stronger than night light.
- Fix a glass of ice water, OJ, “cambric” tea*. Fix two - one for you, one for baby.
- Offer pain reliever, cough drop, Mr. Snuggles.
- Read cartoons online.
- Read Cute Overload to cultivate more empathy on less sleep.
- Reset that one clock that is out of line with recent “fall back.”
- Plan the breakfast in four hours that will kick off a sick day, or fortify child for school.
- Flirt with going back to sleep.
- Ignore dog’s request to go outside.
- Check moon phase and cloud status, both online and out the window.
- Check for child’s regular steady breathing; stop flirting and go back to bed.
*Cambric tea is made by dunking the tea bag once in a cup of very hot water to color the water and make it slightly tea-flavored. Add honey, lemon and/or milk for child’s cuppa. So-called “cambric” because in the past when tea was brewed in reusable cambric (linen, muslin) sachets, it was enough to simply dunk a used cambric bag in the water to tinge it with tea-color and flavor.