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Caleb woke me sometime in the middle of the night last night. I knew it was some hazy early morning hour. I could tell I had been asleep at least a couple of hours after I had gone to bed at midnight. He was begging me to come into the living room and help him turn on a movie. I told him to just crawl in bed with me and let's go to sleep. He refused. I told him to use the remote. He said some vague reason that he couldn't. He kept waking me up when I would doze off. The half asleep conversation… Continue

Lying in bed last night at one in the morning with my daughter, we were the last ones awake. I was reading my book. She was trying to settle down for sleep. She has been sleeping with my deodorant under her pillow the last two nights. She doesn’t want me to see because she’s afraid I will take it away from her. She goes under her blanket and opens the deodorant. I can tell she’s busy doing something. I ask her what she is doing. She says, “don’t look.” It’s too late. I have already glimpsed her… Continue