while the two nine year olds struggle to go to sleep? Madie’s friend is spending the night. Her friend can’t sleep without the tv on. Madie can’t sleep WITH the tv on. So both are struggling. But it is almost 1am and I am tired. They need to sleep. They know it and are currently working on a compromise in the playroom. In my sleep deprived delirium, I am actually envisioning them going to Congress and making a deal better than all of those old politician in Washington. It is 12:50am and they are behaving better while compromising than the President, Congressman Boehner, and especially Senator Reid. They could all learn a thing or two from those girls.
But needless to say, I need to go to bed. So it may make me a bad mother for going to bed before all of the children were asleep, but I must do it. Or I will be an even worse mother tomorrow. A mother for whom an entire pot of coffee can’t save her from being grouchy!
The Puddles 
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