19 January 2009

Porcupines at 3:15 a.m.

I couldn't sleep last night. I'd woken up around 12:30 with an attack of heartburn that ended with vomiting, and then I couldn't get back to sleep. I lay there, under the duvet, listening to the gentle snoring from beside me, thinking about babies and baby showers, and wondering why there was no Tums in the house.

Suddenly, I heard little feet running across the hall. Without a word, she climbed up, kneed me in the chest as she scrambled over, and burrowed under the covers between us.

This morning, the first words out of her mouth were "do porcupines run?"

I don't know. Was one chasing you last night?

12 comments:

  1. Precious. Hope you feel better today;)

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  2. bad dream? hope you feel better.

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  3. clearly one was chasing her..

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  4. How sweet she had a place to run to.

    Patrick started throwing up last night at 12:30 a.m. Sympathy yaks.

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  5. I couldn't sleep last night either. It was torturous.

    No porcupines in our dreams, though, thankfully.

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  6. Vomiting! Terrible, Maggie, I'm sorry.

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  7. heartburn, vomitting, baby showers? are you trying to tell us something?

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  8. Porcupines move rather slowly.

    FA

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  9. I've got the heart burn thing, I think you know. Nasty, horrible.

    I love the things that children ask but I hate that I rarely have an answer

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  10. Sorry about the heartburn, but phew, for a minute I thought the little feet in the hall were porcupine feet.

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  11. Ha! Porcupines, not so fast I'm afraid. She better slow down.

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