NIGHTMARE, SCHMIGHTMARE
Last night, Diddy came into our room a little after 2 am complaining she’d had a nightmare. I got right up and walked her back to her room — darling child has yet to figure out how to capitalize on her night terrors — and she obligingly went right back to sleep, as did I.
This morning on the way to school, I asked her what she’d dreamed about. Here’s what she came up with:
“I only remember a little bit of the scary part. The mean queen from Snow White was fighting me, and I had to make her dead, so I put her in my trash can. But she had magical powers and she came back to life, so then I tried putting her in the kitchen trash, but she came alive again, and so then I tried putting her in the pantry trash — I recycled her — but she came alive AGAIN so then I gave her a cigarette and THEN I put her in the trash again, and that time she died.”
Smart kid. My work here is done.
