The cure
Tuesday May 17th 2022, 9:53 pm
Filed under: Family,Life

Woke up running a slight fever but got up and stayed up and didn’t mention it because it was just a slow-start morning, right? Plus I didn’t want to interrupt his meeting. So he didn’t know.

Finally, no, enough already, and at about 2:00 I went to go lie down, telling Richard, Wake me up in half an hour. Um, maybe forty.

So he tried, but nothing doing. I was not getting up yet.

At the hour, he came in and, knowing I don’t like insomnia at night after too long a daytime rest–

Okay, here’s where I explain about being toddlers and preschoolers in church together sixty years ago. Little kids need movement and song and dance is their thing.

So here’s my 6’8″ husband holding his arms over his head for a sun or a tree, take your pick, singing, Innn the leafy treeTOPS* the birds say good morning. They’re first to see the sun! They must tell everyone! Innn the leafy treeTOPS, the birds sing good morning! as he leaned to the right and stood on that foot, then clapped the other against it then leaned to the left and clapped the right foot against it in rhythm the best he could, swaying back and forth with his sun held proudly high.

You goof!

I hadn’t thought of that song and especially those movements in just forever. I was laughing as I put my hearing aids in.

And then he had to sing it again so I could hear it this time.

 

*(That’s the highest note so you have to sing it the loudest. It’s the rule.)


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Oh, funny! Good for him; if you have to wake up, waking up laughing is the best way.

Comment by ccr in MA 05.18.22 @ 6:53 am

Priceless!

Comment by Jayleen Hatmaker 05.18.22 @ 7:28 am

So fun to wake up to a goof.

Hope you are feeling better

Comment by Chris+S+in+Canada 05.18.22 @ 10:11 am

Delightful! I can imagine that tall tree of a man, and I’d probably tell him that’s the alarm I want from now on. Hope you are feeling much better.

Comment by DebbieR 05.18.22 @ 6:51 pm



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