Up All Night?

The children are napping. This is an anticipatory measure for the long night ahead. IF I let them stay up.

I haven't told them that there is a possibility that the two of them can stay up later than ever before. I'm not yet certain if I can live with that decision.

There is so much to take into consideration.

I don't have cable, so we can't watch the ball drop. In fact, I have no TV channels at all, so we would have to find entertaining things to do for HOURS. That shouldn't be a huge problem but seeing as how staying up this late is so far from our norm, I'm not sure that I can pull it off without major meltdowns from one or both participating parties. The question would more than likely be who would freak out FIRST. At which point one or both would be forced into early retirement, and really, that is never all that much fun. That forced bedtime as opposed to the jolly staying-up-late thing that may have been promised.

So I have resolved to not promise anything, nor mention anything, about perhaps staying up late. We will just play it by ear. That way, if one or two meltdowns occur necessitating immediate bed time enforcement, it won't be the loss of a really cool privilege. It will simply be time for bed. Time for bed a little outside of normal routine, but time for bed nonetheless. No promises.