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# Rescuing Bedtime from Alexander’s Horrible Grip

November 7, 2014 1 min read 

There were some bedtime stories we read to our kids hundreds of times. So many times, in fact, that we would often zone out in the middle and forget to turn the pages while reciting the stories by heart. Alexander and the Horrible….(you know the rest), the bear and the strawberry, the moose and the cookie, Mr. Pine’s Mixed Up Signs, the Happy Man in the Dumpster, Goodnight Moon, Pat the Bunny, Runaway Bunny, etc, etc, etc…

The kids seemed to love the stories, no matter how often we read them, but there were some nights when we, the parents, needed a little extra special bedtime story to keep up our excitement and the wonderment bedtime held for us.

And so, Nick and Nack came to the rescue. Click here for my post for Parents Magazine this month to tell you how it happened:

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