Aahhh...Technology

Gotta love technology! Cell phones in particular. They are so very useful, helpful, and important in our lives...life-saving even. But they can at times be oh, so annoying. Like at 1:30 am. There's nothing like having your phone ring at 1:30 in the morning. You're groggy. You're discombobulated. You're unsure where the noise is coming from, let alone what the noise actually is. Then it dawns on you. It's your cell phone. And it's ringing. Good, you're finally coming out of the fog of slumber enough to realize and recognize what it is.

Who needs you in the middle of the night? It MUST be an emergency. Someone MUST be in the hospital. So you reach for it on your nightstand. Where cell phones should always sit overnight for just such an occasion. Except your arms feel like lead and barely move an inch when you told them to reach to the nightstand. WAKE UP! You yell at yourself! Someone NEEDS me! ANSWER the phone! You reach again, this time your arms make it half-way there. ALMOST! 

Reach again. You got it! Now you have to blink, blink, blink till your eyes clear enough to see who's calling, and yell at your thumbs to work to hit the right button.

You can finally see clear enough to read who the caller is. WHAT? What do you mean it's my SON! He's asleep in the next room!

Then it dawns on you...HE BUTT-DIALED YOU FROM BED!!!

OMG! What in the world is that kid thinking?!? WHY is his phone not on his nightstand, where it SHOULD be??? UGH!!!

Emergency diverted. Relax. Go back to sleep.

But Nooooooo...you don't get to go back to sleep. Why? Your heart is pounding over the near hysteria of an emergency. So you lie there. Waiting. Waiting. Waiting. And thinking. Thinking. Thinking. Too much thinking is not always a good thing. You start to wonder, did he really just butt-dial me? Or does he really need me? Maybe there's someone in his room, and he can't move. Or he had a bad dream and is frozen in bed. (Yes, it's happened to me!) Maybe he's having a heart attack and can't yell. Maybe he REALLY does need me.

You wouldn't be able to sleep at all while still wondering. So, like the good Mommy that you are, you get out of bed to go check. Even tho you know that doing so will wake your entire body up, and you won't be able to sleep for the next 2 hours. *Sigh*

The joys of cell phones....