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  • They know the moment their eyelids drag themselves down, down, down into sleepy-time, mum and dad open the door to the chocolate fairy.

    We Are Horrible Parents 2008

  • They know the moment their eyelids drag themselves down, down, down into sleepy-time, mum and dad open the door to the chocolate fairy.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Over time we developed a strict routine before bed so Stella would know to get ready for sleepy-time.

    David Serchuk: Parenting: Everybody Has A Plan 2010

  • Still, I suspect that the most widely reread writers in English have been Dickens, Shakespeare, and Jane Austen — hardly a month goes by without my revisiting one of them — who combine the sleepy-time comforts of story and character with all the challenge and complexity, the inexhaustible newness, that anyone could ask for.

    Now, Read it Again 2009

  • It was much easier to off a marauding werewolf with silver bullets than to find a vampires sleepy-time lair, dig him or her up by night, and then do the stake routine.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • It was much easier to off a marauding werewolf with silver bullets than to find a vampires sleepy-time lair, dig him or her up by night, and then do the stake routine.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Children of all ages welcome -- there will be bobbing for apples, quidditch-stick designing, and a 'sleepy-time' room for kids whose parents who want to stay late.

    GINNY BATES ON HALLOWEEN Maggie Jochild 2007

  • It was much easier to off a marauding werewolf with silver bullets than to find a vampires sleepy-time lair, dig him or her up by night, and then do the stake routine.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Must jus conf… confisk…. take away dis toy for sleepy-time

    just when you thought it was safe - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I'll guarantee you that if you give us sleepy-time again, that you'll be back down here.

    YesButNoButYes: Haterade's Idol Thoughts - 3/18/08 2008

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