it's todd's turn

Those of you that know me well, know that I often *think* in the middle of the night when I should be sleeping... for example, I tend to have creative epiphanies at 3:00 a.m. It's just when my brain goes into overdrive.

Last night the alarm went off at some ungodly hour and my dear husband got out of bed to go downstairs and shake the coal stove. ( It has been very cold lately, with nighttime temperatures dipping into the low teens {that's about -11 degrees Celsius for those of you that use that scale}. ) It keeps the house warmer when he shakes the stove during the night, because if he wouldn't, the stove would burn all night and be really low in the morning, and it gets pretty cool in the house. So, with this colder weather, he's been setting his alarm to tend to the stove.

Anyway, he went downstairs, and my brain started doing it's thing, and it occurred to me that it's almost like the stove is Todd's 'baby'. He has to get up during the night to feed it coal and shake it a little so it passes it's dust down into the trays, and then, he has to change the dirty trays.

That made me think about all those times I got up with the kids when they were tiny babies because I was breast feeding them and Todd got to sleep through the night. Huh. Well, as my brain deduced in the early morning hours of last night, I guess it's his turn now. hee hee hee!   ;-)

Comments

[Petrina McDonald]

hmmm...still deciding which one of you got the worse deal on that one. I don't think I'd want to get up to stoke a fire - it wouldn't look lovingly into your eyes after you had done "the job" but then again, it would at least give you time off over the summer! Minus eleven! Ok, that is really really really cold!! I don't think I have ever been anywhere that was that cold! I guess you don't want to know that we just spent 2 hours at the beach this morning and that it is around 30 degrees celsius here now?
love, P

[Stacy]

I guess it is a good thing we tend to babies. The baby thing last for only a short time but the coal thing will reoccur every winter for years... I will do the baby thing any day!

You go Todd!

[Fun with Family]

That was a funny story. It reminded me of my childhood, when i would wake up to a cold house because the wood fire had gone out.