Should probably write this one up and send it in to Reader's Digest as it SO fits one of those "Kids Do the Darndest Things" kind of categories! As Gwynn was getting ready for bed last night, she said to me, "Mom, can I ask you a random question?" Yeah, I know, that was funny in itself, but wait, it gets better! I replied sure, and she proceeded to ask me, "Do you look at your bedstand when you go to sleep?" Well, knowing her well enough to know that she was probably going to launch into some longwinded, bedtime delaying story about some weird ritual she goes through with her bedstand, and the princess light, and the things she has on her nightstand, and probably saying goodnight to them all, I just answered, "Well, um, yeah..." Amazingly, she replied "Oh," and was off to bed.

It didn't occur to me to think of the question again. The evening went on, Devin and Tim came home from scouts, I made lunches, I got sucked into some TV, and then it was my time for bed. When I went upstairs I found what you see in the picture above, on both Tim's and my sides of the bed. At our hotel last week, we had turndown service each night. The first night Tim was quite taken, saying "Oh, how nice, they must know we have kids and brought us chocolate!" I informed him that, no, this was just a nice thing they did for all guests, that, also, is just part of the price-tag. Well, while the 40 year old was learning about turndown service, so, in turn, it seems, was the 9 year old! What a cutie!