"It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep."

It's Saturday morning around here and all of us are waking up soooo sleepy. You see in our household we have a tweenager (yes I spelled that correctly!) who has stepped on up into the youth group. But I have to back up the story here a little. Mike and I are early risers and that means we go to bed early. We are also very scheduled people and like things planned out weeks in advance in order to put in on our schedule. Now I'll skip back to my tweenager, since August she has been included in all youth events homeschooling or church. But the thing about youth is they are never early and they rarely plan events other than two or three hours before the event is happening. Most of you reading this post will have realized that the youth and our world are clashing. However, I have a youth who wants to do these events and so I don't crush her spirit everytime she gets to go to the planned and some unplanned activities. Last night was one of the planned activities, "The Fifth Quarter". We planned to let her go, but Mike and I usually razz each other for who is going to take her and pick her up or like last night somebody brought her home, who was going to stay up. The conversation looks a little like "well if I cook brownies tonight, will you take her?" or "Well if I help you with dinner though, you can take her." or "It's your day off sweetie and you got to sleep in late, your much more rested and can take her." or "If you take her, I'll do this or that." Then the conversation continues with, "whoever stays up gets to take a long nap!" or "Whoever goes to get her from the party gets their own freetime or whatever, a leisurely golfing afternoon." or "She's your daughter, you should want to go get her!" or "No you gave her to me, so you should go pick her up." ETC, ETC, ETC. This conversation usually last all day and usually ends up the opposite way of what we proposed. So the whole point to this story is that we as parents are getting toooooo old to stay up late and unfortunately our kids are getting older and staying up later! What's a family to do? Pray! Pray that one of these late night events myself or my husband won't be too sleepy and just fall asleep and forget our children, or fall asleep coming to get them.