A Nighttime Book for Parents and Children

© 2003 - 2024 Deborah Strod

After dinner is done, and the dishes are dry

After the baths are taken, and the diapers are changed

After the lullabies are sung, and the stories are told

And children begin to breathe evenly in sleep

Something happens in the house.

 

It gets very quiet.

 

And then begin low voices

Almost singing to each other

The sounds are different on different nights --

Sometimes just the television is on

Sometimes one is reading to the other

Sometimes one talks and the other laughs, and laughs

Sometimes they both laugh

Sometimes there is just rustling

 

At last there is time for just them.

A Nighttime Book For for Parents and Children.pdf

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