Cookies with Dad

Vanessa is a night owl. Andrew and Ally go to bed at 8 but Vanessa stays up later, sometimes much, MUCH later! There have been more than one occasion that she has been up after 10 sometimes almost 11. This is not something that I particularly like. I've always enjoyed my 'my time' and time with Jim once the kids go to bed but that hasn't happened very often after Vanessa joined our family. Some nights, I do have to admit, I enjoy spending time just her, me and Jim. She likes the special attention she gets from us and really hams it up some nights. Jim sat down at the table for cookies one night after Andrew and Ally had gone to bed and Vanessa climbed up in the chair by him and looked at him expectantly. But, just the cookie wouldn't cut it, she had to have her own glass of milk too.

This was one of the times I didn't mind her staying up late.