Skip to main content

Bedtime Stories

A selection of the excuses used recently to delay the inevitable onset of the dreaded bedtime (some sweeter than others) ...
  • "But I can't go to sleep yet! I don't know what to dream about."
  • "There's a scary noise in my room. I think it might be a vampire."
  • "I'm h-u-n-g-r-y!"
  • "My pajamas make me itchy."
  • "I've been trying to count sheep but they keep running away."
  • "Firstborn keeps farting really loudly and it's waking me up."
  • "I can't get to sleep because I keep worrying that you're all going to die and then I'll be all alone."
  • Thirty minutes after being put to bed: "I've been to sleep already and I'm not tired anymore."
  • "My bed's scary. Can I sleep in your room so I can smell you on your pillow?"  

Comments

Unknown said…
They're all so cute - I wish I'd thought of some of them when I was little!
Anonymous said…
The easiest way I find to get my little ones off to sleep is to join them! I usually get off to sleep before they do!
Kate B. said…
my children are extraordinarily talented at the art of b*llsh*t. I guess it's not surprising considering they're the offspring of an ex-PR girl and a lawyer. :-)

Popular posts from this blog

Apologies for being incommunicado this week and hope none of you out there are too distraught not to be receiving the usual almost-daily MotV missives. The reason for the silence is that I'm up to my neck, metaphorically-speaking, in research papers for my first grad course assessment. This experience has made me realise how rigorously un-academic I am in my thinking. It has also illuminated how reliant I am on red wine in order to get through endless evenings typing furiously on my laptop, not to mention the fueling of increasingly colorful curses that I feel obliged to aim at the University's online library system which consistently refuses to spit out any of the journals I'm desperate for (I refuse to believe this is 100% due to my technical incompetence...) Oh well, if this is the price one has to pay in order to realize a long-cherished dream then it's not all that bad... No one ever said a mid-life career change would be easy. Wish me luck!

Environment

Being an expat, a favorite topic of conversation is 'where I/you want to go next?' or 'When do you plan to go home?' It's a good question. I'm not sure I want to stay in Dubai for ever, but I'm also not sure about how long I want to be here for or where else I would like to live. For almost the first time ever, I have no fixed plans apart from keeping my eyes and mind open to interesting opportunities. And as to going 'home', I have no idea where that is. Constantly moving around as a child left me with the feeling that 'home' is wherever I am right now, so in effect 'home' could be anywhere. The longest I've ever lived in one fixed place was 18 years in London, on and off, but that doesn't feel like 'home' either - I love going back to see family and friends, and it's a great place to shop, but that's about it. I have a great love for California, which is where my extended family is from (and where most of the