| Some of us are blessed with an internal alarm | | | | those nannies with an internal clock. |
| clock. A little voice that wakes you up two | | | | |
| minutes before your alarm goes off. This may | | | | I thought I had the alarm clock before I had |
| be a blessing if that little voice also | | | | children. As a professional Nanny I was never |
| alerts you ten minutes before your son's | | | | late for a soccer game, a music lesson, or |
| soccer game or before the school bell rings. | | | | birthday party. It turns out there are two |
| However I don't have that blessing. | | | | types of internal alarm clocks. The one |
| | | | reserved for those of us who don't have |
| Of course I have the internal ability to wake | | | | children under the age of 18. This one allows |
| up 30 minutes BEFORE I have to wake up after | | | | you to roll out of bed just before your alarm |
| only five hours of sleep. Unfortunately that | | | | goes off after a night of 8 hours of restful |
| alarm doesn't seem to carry over into the | | | | sleep. |
| waking hours. A thirty minute heads up would | | | | |
| be handy. | | | | Then there's the other alarm clock. The one |
| | | | called the mom alarm clock. This internal |
| Not having that constant heads up, instead, I | | | | alarm wakes you up at three minutes before |
| wear the super mom cape as I leap over shoes, | | | | the baby needs to be fed, or two minutes |
| bags and the cat in a flurry of movement. | | | | before your toddler wets the bed, or 8 |
| Knowing full well that the school bell is | | | | minutes before your five year old wakes up |
| going to ring in ten minutes and the drive is | | | | with growing pains. Sometimes these alarms |
| a minimum of 11 minutes and three seconds if | | | | are all in the same night. The mom alarm |
| no one is in the cross walk and that light | | | | clock results in a pure hatred of the real |
| isn't red. Of course, I will have to drive | | | | alarm clock that wakes you up at 7 am as the |
| laps to locate a place I can stop to let my | | | | children are peacefully sleeping telling you |
| son in. All the parking spots are taken by | | | | to start your day. |