The Hangover

Pop Quiz time! What happens when you party for days straight and then go on a road trip for 8 hours and get home late?

You get tired! Really Really Tired!

Want to know what's grumpier than a hungover 5-year-old after four days of toys and excitement and too much sugar?

Yeah, I'm not sure either. Pissed off Tigers? Monkeys, maybe? Border Guards?

Anyway, I'm just glad I was not home when it happened because all I heard was your daughter was a dumpster fire and would not go to school and get out of bed.

I'm still kind of in the doghouse due to the sweater incident yesterday so I just took the fall for this one. I know when it's best to lay low around here.

Long story short: She missed the bus.

I've been telling the child for a long time that if she is late for school and misses the bus that it's three "no fun days" (as they are called here) in a row. You will get on the bus.

And until today she had a perfect score, and I can't really blame her as she was exhausted and she just didn't want to get up in the morning.

As she was getting driven to school she kept on pleading with BW to "not tell Daddy" because she knew she missed the bus and she knew it would not be good for her when she got home.

But, I figured I probably had her worrying enough all day about coming home to me and that's punishment enough. Sometimes the threat looming over her all day works just as well.

We thought she would be a disaster tonight but it was quite the opposite. We talked about how it was OK to be tired but we have things to do some days and we have to get up when we don't want to.

Then we counted how many more sleeps until Santa comes and went to bed at a good time without fuss.

We downloaded the NORAD Santa Tracker on my phone.

We are ready Santa - Bring it.