veg4monster

Illustration Friday time again.

Ever since we've announced our upcoming move, Cakes has been less self assured and a bit more prone to the melodramatic. Nightmares and fear of goblins have come into play as well. I hope that once we've moved and are settled into the new house, they will cease.

I always have had the oddest dreams. Full color dreams. As an adult I can still remember snippets of odd dreams I had as a child. Catnip mice coming to life and attacking me, a very fat Chinese man who wouldn't stop jumping up and down on my bed as I tried to sleep. Just last night I dreamt that I rode a sled to my grandparents house and stood in their field while giant strands of irridescent DNA floated in the sky above their pond.

My mother was prone to odd dreams as well, so I assume Cakes will always be cursed with them.

Tonight when she goes to sleep I plan on telling Cakes the story of what her grandma did in her sleep when I was a little girl.

Cakes is sure to get a giggle out of picturing her grandma dreaming there was a giant grey elephant in my parent's bedroom. In her dream she was frantically trying to get out of the room. So much so that she jumped out of bed sound asleep and ripped every single curtain and curtain rod down from the windows in an attempt to escape.

My poor father, who woke up in the middle of her destruction, was terrified. Only when my mom said "It's the elephant! I've got to get away from him!!" did my dad roll over and go back to sleep.

Comments

[Alicia]

Hi, Don't have a typekey account, but just wanted to say that your comment on Dooce's site today made me LOL.
And I read your current posts, totally died laughing at the realtor post!
You are hilarious!
Hope you don't mind if I start reading your blog.

Cheers!
Leesh

[veg4me]

Alicia you're welcome here anytime.