"This,"I say, "is the bedtime routine I’ve yearned for"

Week one.

I may have had to duck under his pull-up bar in the doorway just now, so as to keep both my eyes in their sockets — and tripped over his weights — but I have not had to run the gauntlet of his Spiderman Scuttle* or plank.

“No Spiderman for eight weeks,” he says, sitting up in bed with his foot elevated, looking anxious for his muscles’ future, “or plank.”