bedtime

Does this scenario sound familiar: You’re washing the Sunday dinner dishes or brushing your teeth before bedtime—and you feel the looming horror of Monday morning back at work.

They took their baths and made their beds and put their toys back in the toy chest before bedtime, for that is what Lumawoo would have wanted.

The birthday greeting was much appreciated, of course, but it was that last bit about the “ivy-covered walls” that kept Penelope awake and thinking long past her usual bedtime.

“You are so kind to include them, sir, but it is long past the children’s bedtime—and I fear the cigar smoke would upset their tummies after such a rich meal.”

She knew it was long past time for her to take the children inside to settle in their new, temporary quarters, to have supper and a bath and a bedtime read-aloud.