Brother has recently started a new bedtime ritual…snuggling.  It’s not really new, of course but it’s new for him.  Previously, he wanted to lay on his pillow, be covered with his blanket and suck on his juice.  (Yes, I am aware you are not supposed to send a child to bed with juice - bad for their teeth and all that.  What can I say?  It works for us.) Touching of any kind was not allowed.  No forehead kisses, no back rubbing, no tucking misbehaving tufts of hair behind the ears… nothing.  Now however we go through this same ritual except after about 2 minutes he starts to toss and squirm and gradually change position until it seems as if the whole of his body is tucked in the small of my back and there he will fall asleep.  It’s a very limited sort of snuggling since I am not allowed to face him and most certainly not allowed to hug him in my arms.  It reminds me of when Sister was small and would stroke my hair each night until her eyelids grew heavy and her fingers grew weary of the motion.  I was not allowed to face her either.  Something about it was too hard to reach my hair.   Silly children that need a mother’s presence to fall asleep but won’t let her watch them do it.