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Mommy's little helper

Part of my job is to lie down on the floor and rub kids' backs to help them take a nap.  It sounds wierd, and it is incredibly intimate, but it's also great and enables kids to have pleasant afternoons.

Yesterday everyone was totally stoked about Halloween and totally a mess.  I got a pillow and sat next to this little boy who really likes me.

What are you being for Halloween? He stage whispered.

It's  not time to talk now, it's time to rest.

He smiled at me and said You could be a Mommy.

Awww.  I thought.  He thinks I'm nurturing and warm.  He also thinks that I'm different enough from a mommy that it could be a costume.  That's really sweet.

You could get some toilet paper and wrap it around and be a mommy for Halloween.

Yep.

He meant mummy.