You can sleep on my floor

Yesterday I was talking with my neighborhood women friends and we were discussing childhood fears and how our moms' would let us sleep on their floor, beside their beds, in a sleeping bag if we were scared. We know a little boy who gets grounded for going and getting into his parents bed at night if he's scared. I don't like that. My kids can sleep by my bed if they are scared. Okay, let's be honest. Once they quit sleeping in my bed half the time and they start sleeping in their own beds, then if they are scared they can then sleep in our room, by our bed. I just think it's nice. I remember seeing a story on the news about a little girl who was taken from her bedroom window when I was like 10 years old and I was terrified of being kidnapped. Thanks Mom for letting me sleep on your floor.

I also remembered that in conjuction with being kidnapped, I was afraid of this happening to me:

...and for some reason these guys (along with oompa loompas, and the weird little guys on that movie "Willow")