What do your kids do when they go to bed?

Bed time -as a parent you have to love bed time. It is always a pleasure to put your children to bed. How fun it is to give them a warm bath, put on pajamas, brush teeth, say prayers and go to bed. Best of all - your children go straight to sleep.

Yeah whatever!!!!! This is not in the manual for raising children nor was I prepared for the fun of putting children to bed.

My children hate bed time. It is amazing how all of a sudden they are so busy. There are so many things they forgot to do. A million and one excuses come up as to why they cannot go to bed.

Each night we go through the routine and eventually they make it to bed. Then for the next hour they have to get up 50 million times and they have to lie in bed and talk and sing. Eventually, they fall asleep.

Well, last night I had them in bed and the house had been quite for awhile. I had a funny feeling that I should go and check on them. So I walk into the bedroom and Molli is sound asleep. Bella is sitting in the bed with a pair of scissors.

I look at Bella and say "What are you doing?" She says, "I am cutting Molli's hair." My heart sinks into my stomach and I have never moved as quickly as I moved over to the bed. Sure enough, there on Bella's lap lies a lock of Molli's hair.

I start running my hands through Molli's hair and more and more hair comes out. I am sick to my stomach. I know that Molli is going to freak out.

Molli is very sensitive and self conscious about her hair. When she was a baby the doctors had to shave her hair for her head surgery. Then at the age of three most of her hair fell out. So, she is very, very, very self conscious about her hair.

I immediately move Bella out of the room (while remaining completely in control and calm :-) ). I sit Molli up and start combing her hair. Luckily, she is out cold and not waking up to find out what is going on. From what I can tell, the hair cut is not too bad.

I call Jenni on the telephone and tell her to come home immediately. When she gets home, she does the same with Molli and thinks she can hide it when she combs her hair.

We decide not to tell Molli (IF YOU READ THIS BLOG MESSAGE, PLEASE DO NOT TELL MOLLI).

Fast forward to the next morning - I get Molli up for school and tell her to get dressed. She comes running out of her room carrying her pajama tops. She anxiously tells me - Dad, there is hair all over my shirt. I just give her the best dumb look that I can and say hum, I don't know what that is from, now hurry and go get dressed.

So far she has no clue and I hope it stays that way. Don't worry, we have checked Bella about every 2 minutes tonight.

So the next time your kids go right to bed, be grateful.