[It's past midnight and the pair of us are trying to fall asleep]
Me: “Ugh. I soo shouldn’t have taken that nap tonight.”
Nick: “You ALWAYS take naps. Then you wonder why you can’t fall asleep.”
Me: “I can’t help it. 7 o’clock is like the bewitching hour for me. I always get sleepy if I’m on the couch.”
Nick: “Bewitching? Did you just say ‘bewitching?’ Ummm…I think you meant to, inappropriately I might add, use the phrase ‘witching’ … ”
Me: “No, I think I mean ‘bewitching.’ That’s totally a word, right?”
Nick: “Yeah.. if by ‘bewitching’ you mean that hour of night one would watch ‘Bewitched‘ on TV.”
[Another 5 minutes pass. There is laughter on my end at my husband's wit, a bit more tossing and turning, and finally some debating of whether to Google "bewitching" for a definitive answer. Nick rises and, a few minutes later, returns from the computer.]
Nick: “For the record … the “witching” hour means the time when supernatural creatures such as witches, demons, and ghosts are thought to be at their most powerful. It can also refer to the period from midnight to 3am — definitely NOT the 7 o’clock hour that is your nap time. And oh yeah, there’s no entry for ‘bewitching.’”
Me: [still giggling]: “I love you for doing that.”
Nick: “And I love you despite the 101 ways you manage to butcher the English language.”
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