Last week in Dallas a few of us were talking and this guy I met was talking about what it was like to raise children and he put it this way, "You know that reality show, BUSTED, where they put a private investigator on someone and follow them around to see if they're cheating on their spouse? Well if they followed me they would see me go into a hotel room and come out 8 hours later looking like my clothes had been slept in - except no one else would have come into the room.
That's my PERFECT idea of cheating on my wife - 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep."
AMEN.
LOL, that is hilarious!
Posted by: By Word of Mouth | November 29, 2010 at 08:04 AM
8 hours?!?! That's not BUSTED that's HEAVEN!!
Posted by: OnceUponAPuzzle | November 29, 2010 at 08:27 AM
Hard to say it better than that.
Posted by: Dana Udall-Weiner | November 29, 2010 at 08:29 AM
Ha ha All parents fantasy. Mine includes a chef too.
Posted by: Melinda | November 29, 2010 at 08:54 AM
That is awesome!
Posted by: marlowefranklin | November 29, 2010 at 08:58 AM
I know a lot of people who are lacking proper sleep because of their kids. This is an acceptable way to cheat on your wife as long as she gets to cheat too!
Posted by: Tom Baker | November 29, 2010 at 12:53 PM
you married folk are funny.
Posted by: andygirl | November 29, 2010 at 03:30 PM
Bahahahaha! That's awesome!
Posted by: Michelle | November 29, 2010 at 10:08 PM
Wait, 8 hours of pure, peaceful sleep?? And no one had to be sedated?
Or smothered?
It exists?
Will Santa bring me some?
Posted by: Shan @ Last Shreds Of Sanity.com | November 30, 2010 at 02:51 AM
I hadn't thought of that. Hold on...one problem, who would look after the kids?
Posted by: hpretty | November 30, 2010 at 06:43 AM
Oh...that is such an amazing thought. I'm going to go fantasize about that now, excuse me....
Posted by: WTH am I Doing | November 30, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Even though English is my first (and only) language, there's a term in there that I don't understand. "Uninterrupted sleep." Sleep, I understand. It's that thing that I get a few hours of here and there after doing a ton of stuff in the house, dragging myself to bed way too late, worrying about the coughing coming from the kids' room and just before the alarm rings in the morning. ("The alarm rings" meaning either the actual alarm or, more likely, my older son yelling "DADDY!!!" when he is perfectly capable of coming into the room on his own and is risking waking his brother up by yelling.)
No, it's this "uninterupted" word. I seem to recall doing things "uninterrupted" in the BC age (before children), but now? Let's see. Get everyone dinner ready, get mine, sit down to eat and... interrupted for seconds, more water, cries because they don't like what I served, calls for dessert, etc. Sitting down to watch TV and... calls for help with one thing or another or cries that one is hitting the other (usually because the one being hit egged on the one doing the hitting). Cuddling with my wife? Forget about it. Kids have a special radar for this sort of thing and will do everything possible to interrupt until you sigh and accept that it's not going to happen right now.
Even this comment is getting interrupted as I need to go brush my youngest child's teeth so he can go to sleep. What is this "uninterrupted" thing again?
Posted by: TechyDad | November 30, 2010 at 08:25 PM
Sleep... oh god such bliss to sleep without being woken.
Posted by: Paxochka | December 02, 2010 at 08:13 AM