Getting Chiara to go to sleep takes a bit of coaxing. Recently Luke and I hit on a new theme, telling Chiara to look for us in her dreams. It really seems to comfort Chiara and enable us to leave her when she is still awake. Before we leave her darkened room she calls out, See you in my dreams!

But I had never actually followed up on the theme. So this morning I asked her whether she saw me in her dreams. She said she didn’t.

“Did you see anyone in your dreams?”

“Yes.”

“Who?”

“I saw Jemma.”

“What was she doing?”

“She was smiling at me.”