Monday, September 20, 2010

cue horror music now



From guest blogger Uncle Darin, an account of one night from our family vacation in Rhode Island:

So I decided to sleep on the couch downstairs. Since, in our small family, two separate houses and nineteen bedrooms is not nearly enough room for each adult to secure a bed. Actually I had a bed but my bunkmate [Jackson) had already turned in for the night, and my alarm was set for 5:45 am. Not wanting to awaken my fine nephew early, I retreated to the couch, CNN and a budlight.

I awoke 2 minutes before my alarm went off. It was one of those deepest of sleeps, interrupted by instant eye opening full awake-ness at 5:43 am. I open my eyes and there is Jackson standing at the foot of the couch staring intensely at me. I stopped breathing and within a moment my heart started beating again. It was like a bad scene out of "The Sixth Sense", but instead of dead people "I see Jackson".
Thanks, Uncle Darin. Hopefully something like that will never happen again.

2 comments:

Jon said...

Darin, Just be glad it wasn't Cade because he probably would have been staring at you from atop the bookshelf right before he did a ten foot elbow drop to your groin.

nikki said...

every time i think of this it makes me laugh!