Make them laugh till they're so tired they can't stay awake. Last night my husband decided he would help me fall asleep. So in his best voice-over voice, all deep and slightly raspy, he says, "You are at the top of a looong staircase. Your take the first step and your toes relax, turning light as air... next step, and your feet disappear... you take the next step, which will be hard because you have no feet, but you do anyways, and your leg muscles relax..." blah blah till he gets to the various female parts of my anatomy, at which he extolls them to no end before going, oh, uh, ya, the staircase... and continues on, culminating with my disembodied "light" head going down the last stair and sort of rolling around until it too goes into the land of dreams. Amazingly enough, this actually put me to bed quite nicely. Alas, though, it was not to be, for I was startled from my sweet slumber by the LOUDEST booming thunder I have ever heard, followed by what I thought was an alien aircraft landing on my roof, but was really only another bolt of lightening making my bedroom look as bright as an operating table. This morning we got to wake up to friggin sheets of rain coming down so damn hard you could barely see, and guess where the umbrella's were? That's right, IN THE CAR. So me, I got to take my shower with mother nature today. But that's OK, I'm a water nymph. :) Also this morning Joey's school threw a mother's day pancake breakfast, so I got to go have breakfast at school with Joey. It was very nice, and I got a beautiful card and gift. Sunday being Mother's Day, maybe my kids will be good and I can sleep. We shall see.

Posted by: Heather
Friday, May 06, 2005
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