9 volt

it's 6:44am, johne's on his way to work and everyone else is sound asleep. i wake up to a loud chirping sound. realized it's the dang smoke detector telling me the battery is dieing. i ran around as quiet as possible looking for the step ladder and when i came back up the stairs from the basement, the boys are up. it took 10 minutes to try and figure out which one is chirping, unplugged it, since we didn't have any 9 volt batteries. layed the boys back down and 5 minutes later 2 others start. normally i wouldn't be so worried about it since it was almost 7am a pretty normal wake up time, but nate has had a rough week with sleeping, not getting more than 7-8 hours of broken sleep and not very good naps. ironically, the morning before we were all up at 6am and the morning before that it was 4am. did it really have to happen today at that time? why not yesterday or even an hour later??? i was really hoping for some good sleep, but even more so wanted the boys to get good sleep so they wouldn't be tired, clingy and cranky all day. well, we got ready for the day, dropped jack off at school and i went to costco to get loads of 9 volt batteries! i got home and put new batteries in every smoke detector. i hope i can remember to change out the batteries next time before we get a very unexpected, unwanted wake up call! so if you haven't changed your batteries lately, you might want to check them or invest in some batteryless smoke detectors! a little pricey but might save money (in the long run) and save me some sanity!

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