Bedtime Story

Reading your kids a bedtime story is supposed to relax them and ease them to the calm that precedes sleep. In our house, the bedtime story has a very different result: Ashe and I often drift off to sleep while reading to the boys in their beds. Then, when we finally wake up and make our ways to our beds, we collapse in utter exhaustion from what has always been a long day. Meanwhile, the boys, nowhere near sleep, continue to play, shout, and throw stuffed animals at each other for another hour or so. We long for the days when both of them went to sleep at 7p.m.