So when I was a little girl, I used to think there was a boogey man. Actually, I thought, when I got in bed, if the covers were up to my chin, I was safe. I thought no one could get me if the covers were over my whole body. But then, I'd get hot and I'd wrestle with myself in my mind and finally would allow myself to stick my toe out so it could get air. Then I'd try to fall asleep but couldn't because I thought that the boogey man was going to cut my toe off. So I'd put it back under the covers. Then I'd be all hot again and decide it was alright to stick my elbow out from under the covers. Huge fear would well up in me and I just knew that I would die by bleeding to death from my elbow once he cut that off....so under the covers it went and so forth and so on till I probably finally fell asleep from exhaustion of this silly game I was playing. This is serious stuff when you are little. Let me tell you.
I peeked in on Noah the other night after I knew he was asleep and he had the sheets and the comforter pulled up to his ears. I checked his head to feel if he was warm and his head was soaking wet with sweat. I wondered if he too thought the boogey man would get him and stayed under the covers even on hot nights because of it. I don't dare ask him or it might put the thought into his otherwise innocent mind.
Sometimes I still think it but I catch myself. Silly girl, tricks are for kids....
Jenn
You cook, you clean, you go to work, you nourish, you love, you scold, you are professional and yet you hang your hat on every dust particle in your home. You are a woman. Some women are Moms and some are not. You are still a woman. We are all made similarly. We are strong.
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