Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Mama's Bedtime Suckage

I'm starting to think that The Son has given up on listening to my bedtime stories.

Last evening, I started to droop at right about 10 pm, then suggested to The Son that we should perhaps stop watching Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, and (stroke of genius!) adjourn to the bedroom for a nice bedtime story.

And rather than to have the bedtime story book that I'm holding fall on my head and wake me up halfway through the story, I decided (stroke of genius!) to make up a variation of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and just tell him the story straight. After all, it's not a particularly complicated tale. I don't think I need any prompting.

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So I wake up the next morning in a daze, like, what the hell happened - wasn't I just telling a bedtime story? Asked The Husband to recount last night's events. According to him, I fell asleep right after Goldilocks arrived at the door of the house of the three bears, but before she went in and started messing with their stuff. The Son realised I had fallen asleep halfway through a bedtime story (again), couldn't wake me up, got off the bed and walked off to find The Daddy. Then asked The Daddy to tell him a bedtime story about Goldilocks.

I give up. I've already tried audio books, where someone else will read the bedtime story whilst I just flip the pages, but I can't even stay awake long enough to finish the whole story (and we're talking about a board book here). Somehow I suspect the producers of audio books know about this parental attention deficit, since a little bell will go off ("DING!!") every time we're supposed to turn the page. They really should make that bell a little bit louder so that it will wake me up. Maybe if they could make it sound less like a bell and more like an alarm clock.

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