Quiet Times

I am an early riser. Always have been but now that I am older I really rise early. I have come to so enjoy this time. I am quiet then. Don't move much. I will enjoy a cup of tea, read build a fire when it is cold and sit outside and watch the first rays of sun hit the earth when it is warm. Maybe it is because I have enjoyed having children about me all my adult life, I never sent them back to their own beds when then were scared at night. Sometime I would have to have them sleep on the floor beside the bed as the bed would be filled with others and it would be sweet and funny to step over their little huddled bodies in the morning as of course they would sleep through the baby crying but I had to get up and attend. Now I want my time alone to be alone. I don't even want the dog. No one to demand attention. This morning as I got up knowing I would not be going anywhere due to ice that came to visit last night I sat at the computer waiting for my kettle to heat up and heard a sound....snoring ???to light for Carl ...Noah to close for him...I turned on the light and there was Caleb asleep on the couch. I tried to wake him and ask him why he was sleeping on the couch but dead to the world he would not respond but I was not to be thawarted...I wanted to be alone...So I rolled him until he was almost off the couch and demanded that he go to his bed or his brothers but get out of the living room. That accomplished I settled down after starting a fire and getting Ruth and Carl out of bed b/c she had something to go to and Carl was going to do the driving in this mess. As I settled reading poetry from a man Carl and I heard speak the night before I heard the noise...steps, boots from the basement...Andrew?? but there were more steps...? Gentlemen? no answer ( this house is small and you can hear everything) "ANDREW!" "Oh Mrs B yes I am here." "Who is with you?" "Ryan, we have a forensic tournament today" I know my course of action here. No child is going to walk there in this ice. "Ok boys go start and scrap my car I will get dressed!" So off I go knowing that these mornings will end soon enough but I STILL I want my quiet mornings!