Comments on: happily ever after

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 00:33:48 +0000

Brings me back, Bon, to those dark nights with an oft-waking, oft-nursing wee one. Somehow, though, laughter wriggled itself in during the daylight hours despite my zombie-like nature

I love this piece. Gorgeousness.

By: bean-mom

bean-mom — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:44:23 +0000

Oh, this is *so* sweet!

My 4-year old also loves stories about her parents. She particularly loves the story about how her mom met a prince =)

By: pnuts mama

pnuts mama — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:20:01 +0000

oh, i love it! the once upon a time is sweetly told here as well…although i gave up on the sleep training- the bean still sleeps in his swing from 9pmish (cringes at the looks of disgust) til 4-6amish when he cries for boobie and is obliged, often for more than an hour as we both snooze through his breakfast (?) (afterparty? i remember eating breakfasty type foods at 4am back in the day, usually after that round of shooters you spoke of) and i dump him unceremoniously into said sidecar. til 7amish, where we rinse and repeat, unless he decides he is up for the day, and if so, i am an unhappy mama for the rest of said day.

am looking into a white noise machine. husband is looking into drugs- for me, for baby, for him, who knows? i wish i could get him on a better schedule during the days/nights, but, i suck. and him doing cio really doesn’t work with having a houseful of people who would like to sleep. eh, he’ll sleep eventually.

good luck and good rest tonight, mama.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:13:23 +0000

Your writing enfolds me and I never know what to say when I’m done reading, so I believe this is my first comment. My son, Z, is now 2, but when he was Posey’s age, I first joined the Twitterverse. I was writing at night and would nurse him to sleep on the living room floor and then join him every hour or so all night long. He nursed every 45-90 minutes for a year! He never used a crib. Although it was terrible at the time, I wouldn’t change a thing. I began to imagine the guest bedroom as a romantic hotel getaway, or we probably never would have survived. Since then, I’ve learned I don’t need sleep anyway. We also do the story thing every night, but Z mixes up his characters. “Thomas, Mommy, Mater story?” This week he requested a Mommy and Daddy story with no other characters! I told him a story about Mommy and Daddy getting a babysitter and going to Seattle…

By: Ally

Ally — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:48:23 +0000

Just tell me this Bon. How in the heck to write this beautifully and well when you are so dreadfully sleep-deprived? I am in awe. Again.

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:22:45 +0000

a true fairytale, indeed

By: Janet

Janet — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:28:47 +0000

Princes who gives baths and tell bedtime stories are my favourite.

By: Susan Ettenheim

Susan Ettenheim — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 22:59:34 +0000

Great story! Smiling… smiling… When Mattie was little she told me sister all about the giraffe that came in at night and kissed her… she had asked about the “draft”… in the room…

By: WhyMommy

WhyMommy — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:41:29 +0000

Widget loves the stories of when Mommy was a little girl, and when Mommy met Daddy, and how we lived (sort of) before we were Mommy and Daddy. He has such a funny time wrapping his brain around a time when Mommy was just “Susan.”

Cracks me up.

I love this post; the love and laughter come through so clearly.

By: chris

chris — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:18:26 +0000

I love this story- so funny, so beautiful.