BASKET OF CANDLES LENSOGRAPHY

Through most of my junior and high school years, my dad drove the school bus. Now, before any of my friends or I got old enough to drive, that was pretty neat, because Dad would let us sit in the back and listen to the radio. To my chagrin, I found out soon that even though I was his daughter, I was not exempt from having to sit on the front seat for breaking rules! Talk about embarrassing!

Anyways, each morning at 6:00 on the dot, Dad would come to my bedroom door and tell me, "It's time to get up."
Did I listen? No! I burrowed deeper under the covers because I'd stayed up so late the night before looking at my Tiger Beat magazines! Which, of course, would bring poor old Dad back to my door at 6:15 to say "Alright, gal. It's 6:15. I'm about to leave and you better get up." Sometimes I got up, sometimes I burrowed even more. Stubborn as I could be. At 6:20 one morning I got the message loud and clear that I'd better get up before I found out how many shades of red my rear-end could turn. Now, remember, I'm not a morning person, I curtly replied, "One of these days when school is finally out, I'm going to sleep as late as I want to!!!" Dad just said, "That's what you think, now get up and get moving, I'm leaving in 10 minutes." That exchange went on every school day for all 4 of my high school years.

In my last year of high school, the unthinkable happened. I learned really fast, and it wasn't from a book or school, that you CAN get pregnant the first time you think you are old enough to have S-E-X. I had my son three months before I graduated. Needless to say, Dad was right. I didn't get to sleep as late as I thought I'd be able to...
I woke earlier than I wanted every morning for the next 17 years. Getting up to get his breakfast, get him off to school, etc.. You know the routine! But finally I get him to his junior year in high school. 'I'm thinking YES!! FINALLY!! I can sleep as late as I want! I'm almost there!!'

During January of my son's senior year, my dad passed away but the day before he died, he made sure to kid me one more time about my sleeping in. I got married in March of my son's senior year in school at the ripe old age of 35. In April, guess what? Yep. I found out I was having my baby girl! My son also graduated in April. I was up every morning getting the new husband off to work, then my baby girl came in December. Boy, is she an early riser! I've managed to make it 10 more years of waking up to get her off to school, etc.. and for some reason, I honestly believe my Dad is sitting up there on his cloud in heaven and having a ball laughing at me and my "sleeping as late as I want to!"

So never say you are going to do something just to show someone! It might come back on you!

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