Gary & Lisa Williams

> From: SandraDodd@...
> Subject: Re: kids and sleeping, was Re: sticking with things
> In a message dated 9/4/03 7:17:29 AM, fetteroll@... writes:

Yes! I am that way too. I don't like to think the monster under the bed can
reach up and grab my toes. I don't remember where I ever got that idea, but
it's there! Even if it's hot, I like to have something light covering me
up...

> I still "need" to sleep covered up to the neck to be safe to go to sleep.
I
> can't fall asleep with any part of me except my head uncovered. I have to
> close the closet door. I'm not "afraid" of anything, but I developed my
own
> self-comfort routines and they're still necessary.


> Last night I slept with Holly. She's in an upstairs room, there's a
> streetlight across the cul-de-sac, and a tree was moving, a little, and it
made a
> really pretty pattern on her wall. I said "Your tree shadow is really
pretty."
> She talked about liking to trace shadows, and that when she was little she
> used to sit behind the shed and trace the pattern of the shadow of the top
of
> the clipboard.
> Sandra

This was such a cozy and peaceful going to sleep story. It reminded me of
when I was a child and my mother would come to each of our separate bedrooms
(there were 3 kids) and fix our blankets and rub our back, linger to see if
we wanted to talk and ALWAYS sang Braham's Lullaby. And she did this until
we were 13-14! (Of course, we never were allowed in the parents' bed!!)
Lisa (in IL)