Bedtime for Mommy!

If there’s one thing you miss the most about your pre-motherhood phase, or crave the most as a new mom and can’t seem to get enough of it post parenthood, it is a good night’s SLEEP! It all begins with nocturnal nights when your baby has got the concept of night and day completely mixed up; or an alarm that goes off every 2 to3 hours without a snooze option, or feeling utterly helpless in the dead of the night when your little one is at her playful best making you wonder if you’ll ever get to sleep through the night! Of course, you cant help resenting the fact that the world around you (read husband) gets to sleep soundly completely oblivious to your little one’s nightly adventures! Even after your baby grows up, your hectic parenting demands make you just as sleep deprived. To this day, I feel I cannot nap whenever I want and only when my baby sleeps, can I sleep like a baby!:-)

Speaking of sleep deprivation, just imagine if the tables turn and your little one puts you to sleep instead! You wish, right? Today’s book was just that – “Bedtime for Mommy” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and illustrated by LeUyen Pham. Its bedtime and its mommy who’s begging for five more minutes before her little daughter pushes her up the stairs to take a bath, brush her teeth and climb onto the bed. After reading a bedtime book with her mommy, the little girl tucks her mommy in bed and kisses her goodnight. When she’s about to shut the door close, her mommy jumps up asking for a glass of water! With mommy finally in bed, its one down and one more to go – the little girl now turns her attention to Daddy and you cannot but be charmed by this pleasant reversal of roles!