WAKING UP
2 August 2007

A colleague of mine was very happy when she arrived to work last Wednesday. I could tell she had been smiling all the way into work, she was glowing! She told me that she had been babysitting her sisters two children and had slept in their room. In the morning when the two girls just woke up they had said: "Oh you are still here, did you sleep over? That is so nice..."

And isn't it so nice what they said? So simple, but just so true! It is beautiful to wake up with someone you care about... Maybe for a moment wondering how you could be so lucky... and then have that precious moment within you the whole day. Carrying it with you.

It beautiful.

OK. But it's also great to wake up alone - but well rested and fit - after a long night's sleep! Noone who wanted to read with the lamp on, disturbing your beauty sleep. Noone who moved around or stole the duvet. And noone who had to wake up early with an annoying alarm going off hours before yours, and, finally, noone who turned on the lamp before you were awake.

Maybe not as beautiful as to wake up to the person you love - but it certainly has some advantages to wake up as the queen of your own bed.