Category Archives: Kids

Guest Napper #46 – Patriotic Pallet?

When I posted my first-ever stair nap, people were pretty amazed. Frankly, I’m beginning to wonder why. There’s a devastating national secret, and it’s that kids are sleeping on the steps all over this fine country of ours. From stair to shining stair, the new generation is bucking traditional ideals about beds, for God’s sake. Mom…beds …

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Guest Napper #45 – Snoozing Superhero

You know I couldn’t leave Halloween behind without a kid who had a sugar collapse. Luckily, Jessica caught Saul doing exactly what I had wished my kids would do.  He just went facedown in a candy coma. I assure you that this is far preferable to the screaming fit that my youngest devolved to, before …

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Wishful Thinking

This is a scene that I fear will not be taking place around 8pm tonight. No, I don’t care overmuchly if my kids take a sandal to bed with them, but I am afraid that there will be no sleeping after the sugar rush that is due to take place in less than 12 hours. …

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Snooze and Lose

Well folks, it’s my birthday.  You know in When Harry Met Sally when Sally wails “And I’m going to be forty….some daaayyyy!”  That day is now just one year away for me. Where did my life go? How did I become older than the oldest age of the main characters in When Harry Met Sally?  …

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