Worst Bedtime Ever

The post-traumatic stress syndrome continues for Eliot, as for maybe the second time in her life, she refused to go gently into this good night, and required multiple book readings, songs, rescuing from heaving sobs, more songs, and finally, the ultimate secret weapon: The Boxer, her old uniquely effective baby lullaby. Hard to believe that that was more or less the nightly ritual for Anselm once. We definitely had these children in the right order.