Saturdays Should be for Sleeping In.

I like to sleep in on the weekends.

I like to sleep in any chance I get!

Today was not one of those days.

Will was being picked up by some friends, who took him with them up to Sundance for the first skiing of the season.  To make sure he was up and ready for them to come get him at 7 am, I got up at 6 am.  Good thing.  He was passed out on the couch in the family room in nothing but his underwear, with the fireplace roaring away, sound asleep.  I had found him dead to the world the night before on the floor in front of the same fireplace and had a difficult time moving him to his own bed.  Turns out he got himself up at 5:30 and fell back asleep in front of the fire.

My kids are constantly turning that thing on and turning the basement into a summer heat-fest.  They don't like to be cold.  Helena's room is downright toasty most of the time, because she keeps her heater vent wide open and her door shut as much as possible.  I get frustrated because I dread the bill to come from this basement heat wave.

Bill was eager to get up early today, too.  He wanted to see the lunar eclipse.  We watched it through the telescope from the spare room for a little bit, until it moved behind some trees.  Then Bill took the telescope out into the front yard.  I will admit, the eclipse was pretty cool.  We had the whole family up (Helena got rousted, too) and looking through the telescope and binoculars.

I had every intention of going back to bed once Will left to go skiing.  But, by the time he actually left, I knew I wouldn't be able to fall back asleep again.  I was tired and wanted to sleep, but the sun was up by then, and I'd just lay there thinking of all the things I ought to be doing instead of laying there, you know?

So, Bill, Helena, and I went out to breakfast and did some Christmas shopping, instead.  We spent the morning at that, and I spent the afternoon wrapping gifts.  Bill picked up Will and his friends in the early evening, just as Helena was headed out for an evening with her best friend, Megan.  It was a good day for everyone, I think.