One Dark and Stormy Night..

One summer evening, during a violent thunderstorm, a mother was tucking her small boy into bed.

She was about to turn off the light when he asked with a tremor in his voice,
"Mommy, will you sleep with me tonight?"

The mother smiled and gave him a reassuring hug. "I can't dear," she said "I have to sleep in daddy's room."

A long silence was broken at last by his shaking little voice, "The big sissy."