Lucy has mastered the art of warding-off the Boogey Man:
A stuffed animal and dolly forcefieldshrine next to mom’s side of the bed.
Lucy, the big-o-first grader that she is… is having some issues with getting to sleep.
FOR ALL HER LIFE.
Energizer should do a energy study on this girl.
She is always stretching bed time. Lately, she claims she is scared.
A few days ago she yelled down to me from her bed, “I’m SCARED!”
I yelled back, “Stop being scared and start being awesome!”
She was so awesome she ended up camping at the side of my bed that night.
The next night she was she came downstairs to me and said, “I’m scared.” I was thouht I’d give “awesome” one more shot: “Stop being scared and start being awesome!” Then she was all, “OK.” And went to bed.
Marched upstairs. Went to sleep.
I am not even kidding.
Enter the weekend… and more of the being scared and sleeping on the floor beside my bed.
Why doesn’t she sleep in bed WITH me?
BECAUSE MAMA REFUSES TO SLEEP WITH A TORNADO THAT HAS LONG TOENAILS AND THROWS PUNCHES.
Saturday night I got home late. Read: I was absent for all her manipulations declarations of being afraid. Instead I walked into my room and found her securely in her “safe room” beside my bed.
In the morning I asked about her set-up.
“It’s so the Boogey Man couldn’t get me. He’s a skeleton and he would break if he tried to walk over my dollies.”
I feel bad.
But I still feel like she really knows how to work her mama.
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