The Keeper of the Sleepers and Dreamtime Adventures

A long, long time ago, there was a little,who just couldn’t make his way to dreamland. This determined little, fought hard to keep from closing his eyes and was awake all the time.

He was so tired, but nothing his parents did to help him find his sleep, seemed to work. His parents rocked him, sang to him and told him the sweetest of stories to try to entice him to close his tired eyes and go to sleep.

But, he just wouldn’t.

So his mama and daddy did what they had to do. They called in the keeper of the sleepers to help them figure out why their little fought so hard, to catch his zzzz's.

The sleeper keeper got on her knees and began to concentrate. She looked at the littles eyes. They were so tired, and heavy, that the little continuously rubbed them. The keeper noticed that the little, who was always so happy and smiling, was now a bit grumpy and ouchy.

All the sure signs that this little needed to rest.

The keeper had a failsafe plan. She ran her fingertips across the littles head, down around his ears, under his chin and ever so slightly tickled her way up his cheeks and over his eyebrows and down the littles nose. From there she wiggled her fingers over his lips, and made her way back over the opposite ear ending back up on his head, rubbing and scrubbing.

She then, ever so softly, placed her fingertips over the littles eyelids. Making large circles, around and around his eyes, getting smaller and smaller and then bigger and bigger. Back and forth between both eyes. The little began to relax, his mouth began to droop, which is a very good sign that the sandman would be visiting soon. As the keeper began to rise from the bedside of the little, she slightly bumped the bed and stirred up the little again.

She would need to start the process again.

Very few could resist this mesmerizing massage that the sleeper keeper performed, but it did not faze this particular little. He seemed immune to these tricks of her trade.

The sleeper was surprised, but not deterred. She opened her magical bag of sleeping aids and tried again.

Pulling out the fuzziest blanket, she laid the wired and frazzled little down onto the it and began to slather the sweetest, warmest and most soothing lotion the little had ever seen or felt before.

Massaging his back and neck, then down his arms. She drew letters and wrote lullabies to lull the little, leading him to the land of slumbering tots.

After trying several different sleeper tricks, the keeper knew there must be something else going on, for this little to resist her methods so fiercely. She needed to dig deeper.

So she sang this song to the little.

She sang a song from of the ages designed to reveal his inner voice and thoughts. The most lovely, powerful, freeing song ever to be sung.

“Why and what and where do you go, that keeps you from resting your head? Why won’t you close your tired little eyes, rest here with your mama in bed? Your daddy will keep you safe in his arms, you are loved with nothing to fear. Rest my dear little, sweet dreams are yours, and when you awaken, we will be here”

The song allowed the little to reveal all if his secrets to the keeper, this is what he showed her:

Before the little knew his mama and daddy.

When the little was only a notion, a thought. Long before the little became the pride and joy of all who encountered him, he was a speck.

He floated and spun all across the universe.

He shot and sparkled like the stars, shining in the sky.

he hung over the lakes and trees and shone bright, like the moon.

He soared and blew carelessly and wild with the wind, blowing the trees and making ripples in the sand.

He traveled with the birds to far away lands, and skipped over the water with the fishes, like a stone.

But, the little had never known a time where he needed to sleep. He never had a family of his own to cuddle and snuggle and just be with.

All the other creatures he played with had a place and a family, and at the end of the day they went home. Leaving him all alone.

Until now.

He was afraid if he went to sleep, when he woke up, they would all be gone, and he would be alone, again.

The keeper smiled. She revealed to the little -all of the days his mama and daddy prepared for him to arrive, she showed him everything his parents changed and left behind to be ready for him to be their little.

The keeper summoned the littles mama and daddy-who gladly snuggled up with him and covered him in kisses.

The little boy being warm and toasty and so incredibly loved, finally closed his eyes and went to sleep. Dreaming about all the adventures he would have with his family when he awoke.

His greatest adventures were yet to come.