William H Macy On Bedtime Battles

Like many parents, William H Macy knows all too well the "pandemonium" of the bedtime routine.

The Fargo star tells OK! that he and his wife Felicity Huffman have a hard time getting their kids Sofia, 9, and Georgia, 7, into bed at the end of the day.

“I realize the pandemonium of the nighttime – finishing dinner, getting homework done, cleaned up, getting them into their nightgowns, reading and getting them to bed – I really miss it when I’m away. It’s a burden when you’re at home, and it’s easy to get cranky with them because we’re trying to get the whole nighttime put-down into about an hour. And it can very easily take two hours.”

Thankfully the 59-year-old actor has a trick up his sleeve to get the girls to cooperate!

“They love to read, so the carrot is reading. The stick is ‘hey, the longer it takes you to brush your teeth and get your nightgown on, the less reading time.’ And they will do anything to get more reading time. We try to keep it to 45 minutes of reading per night. But it’s so cute. Now, sometimes we’ll put them in bed and they’ve gone into each other’s rooms and read to each other.”

When asked about his wife of 12 years, William practically gushes with praise for the Desperate Housewives star.

“She's always been sort of a dreamgirl for me from the first time I ever saw her. I love her bone structure. I love everything about her. And she’s got an astounding body. I think even though she’s spiritual and a relatively deep thinker, she has a lot of empathy for what is going on in the world – but despite that, I think a laugh is about the closest thing to the surface for her. She has a beautiful laugh, and it’s never far away. She’s self-deprecating, laughs at herself a lot, she absolutely adores me, and only wants good for me."

"I just got lucky," he concludes. "That’s really the truth of it.”