Sentences with phrase «room on tiptoes»
When the baby is finally asleep in my arms and I put her in the crib and, holding my breath, leave the room on tiptoes, it feels almost natural to hear, a second later, a growing moan that turns into desperate sobbing.
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It was another night when little Joe was sleeping over and at quarter to ten I had to tiptoe into his room and prop a card on the bedside desk that said won 3 - 2 for when he woke up.
I tiptoed inside, set the car seat down on the floor in AP's room, and drifted off for a solid three hours of sleep.
Her parents, looking in on her and seeing her with her cheek pressed against the floor, thought that she had fallen asleep, and her father tiptoed into the room to lift her into bed, only to be disconcerted by the gleam of her wide - open eyes over the top of her arm.