Does anyone else's children rely so much on their night light? My Abrial will not go to bed without her night light on. Even if her tv is on and the light in the bathroom is on, it has to be her night light. Last night we all hit the bed pretty early and I always leave their tv on and just hit the sleep button so it goes off an hour or so later which I figure they will both be asleep by then well that was not the case last night. Madyssen came in our bedroom around 10:30 saying Abrial was crying so I jump up and run down the hall to her room and asked her what was wrong and she said she couldn't see the wall. I asked again and she said "the night light is off" so then it clicked that I had completely forgotten to turn the switch on the night light. Usually if I forget she will remember but we both forgot last night and the poor thing had a melt down. I turned her night light back on and even turned her tv back on so hopefully she could calm down and go to sleep. She went calm as soon as she saw that night light come on and laid down and within 30 minutes was sleeping like a baby. I felt awful. I am usually so good about remembering all her little things that I can't believe I forgot. It happens to us all I'm sure but I still feel terrible.
I don't know how I could forget after the April tornados last year. Those tornados came through Alabama and I was lucky enough to call into work and stay home with my girls, well the tornado went right over the house, luckily no harm to the house just our backyard but the power was out and it was out for days. Well, we packed up the kids and went to Chattanooga, turned out to be one of our best vacations and our first as a family and she did great up there. I just turned on the bathroom light and she was fine but then again I was sleeping in the bed right next to her. We came back home after 3 days and still no power. So we did what we could and just hoped we would only be without power for one night. Well, I had forgotten about the whole night light thing and she was in panic mode when it was bedtime. "What about my night light?!" I tried to explain to her that the power was off and that was why she couldn't use her computer or tv and that is why her night light wouldn't work either. Of course she was bawling and didn't understand and just in a panic and scared to death to go to bed. Luckily my wonderful husband thought of something and gave her a little flash light and she kept the flash light on all night. After that night we went out and bought those night lights that come on when the power goes off and have one in their room and one in the hall.
So I can't believe I forgot last night especially after going through all of that, but it happens I suppose. We have those things set to come on if the power goes off but there's a switch so you can use it as a night light or have it come if the power goes off so we just switch it on and off and last night we just forgot to flip it on. I feel so bad. This morning she says she's fine and is playing as usual on her computer. I guess she'll be playing on that a lot today since it will be raining most of the day. But we are taking them to Chuck E Cheese tomorrow so they'll have lots of fun then.
Hopefully I will not forget that night light again.
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