After these nearly hour-long bedtime stories, it would finally be our turn.
If you do an hour-long bedtime routine pretty much the same way every night, your child's brain will get the message that it is time to shut down for sleep.
We were all set... You're guessing there were tears long before bedtime?
"The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" was sometimes unbearably long at bedtime, but mercifully so when my son was wearing his nebulizer mask.
The logistics of reading long past bedtime can be challenging enough, but the future Jacquetta Hawkes needed to practice being an archaeologist.
It was somewhere around 7 p.m. on a Wednesday last month, long past bedtime for Stowe's lifts, and certainly well into après for much of the ski world.
We like to picture the President sitting up long past bedtime, some night next spring, say, licking and pasting a batch of stamps fresh from engravers in Athens and Paris and Prague, and thinking to himself that he had managed to put together a pretty good album.
I hold my daughter close and read her dozens of books long past bedtime.
Singing from little voices in the backseat, sticky-fingered hugs, laughter from under the blankets long past bedtime.
And as long as bedtime doesn't conflict with primetime, I will be watching and pulling for them.
