Washing The Pen

One thing I miss at times is playing a video game for a really long time.  I am talking hours here.   I miss just losing myself to the story and game play.  With two little boys, almost 2 and 3, that doesn’t happen much.

Last night I sat down with Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.  I have had a lot of trouble getting into this game, but skipping the story really helps.  I got in a gaming mood last night, it was the last night of VBS. It had been a long week and I really just wanted to unwind.

I beat one map in like 10 minutes, then I beat the next in about 15 minutes.  Then I thought well now I am in the 20’s, they have to be getting tougher.  Yep, the next map took an hour or.  I was thinking I really should go to bed.

My youngest is getting his two year molars in.

He has been getting up at night.

Every night lately.  It was midnight.

Just one more.  No, no I was thinking.  Then I thought, lets just check it out.  See what its like so I can think about while I am up rocking.

Part of me was yelling STOP.  Save and shut the DS off!  The other part was lets see what happens with the first couple of moves.

Next thing its 1 AM

1:30 AM and the little one is up.

1:45, he is alseep.  Carrying him to bed and the cats get into a tiff and wake him up.

Now both are up.  The oldest crawls into bed with mom.  I try rocking the younger one, but he wants mom now. Maybe he wanted in the bed too, but I am not really sure.

2:30 AM, they are talking to each other in bed.  I realize we need a king bed.

2:45 I go lay with the older one in his room.

3 AM  the little one is still awake as I get back into bed.

6:00 My wife’s alarm goes off and I never really get back to sleep.

Moral: Don’t decide to stay up playing video games when your little one is teething.  I feel even worse, because I skipped devotions to play video games.