I wonder

[muck_a_luck]

My mother always wishes one "Sweet dreams, and a pleasant waking in the morning." I'm pretty sure that was what Grandma said, too. And of course, I carry on the family tradition.

Anybody else know that one? Any idea if this is some ethnically specific well-wish, or do we think it's just a thing somebody up my maternal branch started?

Considering they're all from the Carolinas a looooong way back, I would assume if it DOES come from somewhere, it would have been English or Scotch Irish.

Comments

[shalom]

I was always told "Sweet dreams" but not 2nd part, and now use it with the kids as well. I love the 2nd part of the wish you got.

[green_grrl]

We got the first part, too, and not the second. (And in the morning we got, "Good morning, sunshine. Time to rise and shine.")

I've never heard "and a pleasant waking in the morning" before, but there's something about it that sounds Irish.