At bedtime:
Chas: Night night everyone! And don't worry Max, we'll be right here if you're scared or anything.
Max: Scared? Oh puh-leease.
Sam: Don't be silly Chas, Max isn't scared of a movie! I mean, all those bits with the snake, he KNOWS they are animated.
Chas: True, true, he knows there isn't, like, an evil snake under his bed or anything. We could always leave a light on, Max, if you're worried about the snatchers though.
Sam: Can snatchers apparate? Like, into houses?
Chas: Definitely. Actually, Nagini can apparate too. That's how she got to Bathilda's house and ate her up.
Sam: Riiight. Hey, a lot of people died horrible deaths, when you think about it.
Max: (thinks about it...)
Guess who's sleeping in my bed?
This website was invented many years ago, when the author kept coming across interesting things in pockets whilst doing laundry. Like small, terrified reptiles. Blogging about raising children in the rainforest, moving them to the UK and watching them leave home one by one to have their own adventures has gradually been replaced by a return to grownup life for their mother, Nan Sheppard, who is an anthropologist, writer and public international law consultant.
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7 comments:
I have one like that. But sleeping in mommy's bed was right out. Not putting up with wriggling and whining while I'm trying to get some shut-eye.
The dog's bed is available.
It's a large bed and hubby is off flying helicopters in distant lands, so it's not a problem. The deal is, you stay on your side of the bed and GO TO SLEEP, and he does. Not a wriggly whiner at all.
I kinda like having a baby in my bed, it saves getting up in the night. Not so much fun when they're long and bony, but I really don't mind.
So Chas and Sam haven't learned about Karma, yet, huh? Or as we say here in the States - "What goes around, comes around."
Oh yeah, I can totally see how that would end up happening! I was scared just READING it.
My big brother let me sleep in his room after we watched From Dusk Til Dawn so that the vampires didn't get me!
So they aren't all bad!
One day, Max will get his revenge!
I bet he felt warm, safe and snuggly. What a good Mom you are!
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