Tonight I was hanging out in E’s room while she read before bedtime. I set up shop for some invitation work, and it was nice to sit there together, with the faint sounds of basketball games on my iPhone in the background. She was sitting in the center of the bed, legs crossed, deeply engrossed in her book. I looked up when I noticed she seemed to have shifted – she was leaning forward at an odd angle. After a few seconds I realized she was asleep… and drifting forward. At the last second she stretched her arms out in front of her, keeping a hand in the spot of her book where she left off. With camera in hand I recorded this moment before shifting her around to her pillow. (Reminds me of this, many moons ago.)
I can’t wait to show her this photo in the morning.
And speaking of falling asleep in a book – that’s where I’m headed right now – and before eleven, no less!
Can you tell me where you got the reading lamp on a timer? I think it’s a great idea and I’m looking for something like that for my 3 year old daughter, but can’t find it!
Thanks,
CE
The bedside light is from IKEA (KVART)- and it comes with a mounting plate and a clamp that interchange. We have a red one in E’s room mounted to the wall, and a silver one in F’s room clamped to a bookshelf. They come in several colors and are around $10. The timer was probably purchased at Home Depot or Lowes – I would check at any hardware store in the electrical department for one of those – you just plug it into the outlet, and then plug the light into that. Now that she’s older she turns the light off on her own (or just falls asleep in her book), but when she was younger we would turn the dial to twenty minutes or so past the current time and it would click off on its own. That gave her a real sense of it being “her time”, and we weren’t the bad guys for turning off the light and making her go to bed!