Five More Minutes

Zane is one of those kids who fights and fights not to have to take a nap. Of course, those kids fall asleep instantly if they are still for two minutes.

Zane has been asleep for two hours.

I try to wake him up.

He doesn't want to wake up.

"Zane, wake up!" I try again, rolling him over on his back this time.

"Five more minutes, Mama!" Zane tells me, without opening his eyes,

I laugh...and I give him five minutes. Children need their sleep.

Cut to the next morning:

Zane is on the bed, leaning over me. "Wake up, Mama!"

I roll over and blearily open one eye.

"Five more minutes, Zane," I mutter, on my way to falling back asleep.

Little hands start pushing on my shoulder.

"No, Mama!" Zane yells. "Time to get up!"

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There will come a day, when Zane is a teenager.

A day when my son wants to sleep five minutes longer.

I am so waiting for that moment.