Category Archives: Parenting
Slumbering Swimmingly – Best EVAH
I used to joke about my youngest being the junior varsity napper, compared to his brother. Nobody at Naps Happen is making jokes anymore. This kid is a serious contender. Who knew the Nap-0-lympics were being held as an aquatics event this year? What you are seeing, folks, is my boy, who collapsed from exhaustion …
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 …
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 …
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. …