Tricia quietly yawned and tried to stay awake as she waited for her daughter now mother to turn the lights off to go to bed She hadn't thought it would be this hard to stay up until she had to do so as a younger child.
A short time later, she saw the faint light of Terri's bedroom turn off and waited a short time afterwards. Tricia very quietly got up and snuck out. Tricia slowly opened the other bedroom door and winced as the door made a noise but Terri stayed asleep.
Tricia looked down at Terri and made a quiet request to the Ring of Age to increase her age to 24. In the faint dark, it seemed as though Terri started to move away from Tricia as Tricia gained in height. Puberty came quickly for Tricia and she was thankful that she had thought to make the shirt age resistant.
A few minutes later Tricia looked down her her daughter and made another request to the Ring. It was difficult to see in the near dark but Tricia saw her daughter loose the weight of her mid-thirties and gain the youthfulness of her twenties. Tricia looked down at her daughter who could be an older sister become a younger sister.
Twenties become teens as Terri started to shrink into childhood. The sheets on top of Terri seemed to deflate as Terri lost height and age. In a few more moments, Tricia's daughter was on the other side of puberty and getting further away. Soon after this, Terri reached an age of 5.
Tricia looked down at her now adorable daughter and smiled. She had been too busy working to really enjoy being a mother for Terri but now she could be for at least a time.
"Terri, it's time for you to go to bed." Terri looked up at her mother.
"Mommy, can I sleep with you tonight?"
Tricia quietly got into the bed and held her daughter. "For tonight okay. Tomorrow you will sleep in your own bed, okay."
"Okay Mommy."