Susie had a childcare conflict tonight, so we were watching Nikki for the evening. Anna didn’t nap, and she usually goes to bed around 7:00 on days she doesn’t get a nap in, but we figured she’d be OK for the one late night. Well, around 9:00 she came into the kitchen where I was trying to get a little work done and, with fingers firmly stuck in her mouth and the other hand tugging at her ear asked me to read her a goodnight story. I agreed to put her to bed…in a few minutes. Well, a few minutes later I walked into the living room and she was sound asleep on the couch with Carolyn and Nikki playing quite noisily around her.
I feel simultaneously really proud of her for sleeping when she needed to and very, very guilty that I didn’t read her that goodnight story…