Night time when you have kids can often be an interesting experience. Rather than getting a good 8 hours, often it will end up like this:
7.29pm: Kids go down for the night
7.30pm: Coronation Street
7.31pm: Crying from upstairs
7.59pm: Baby finally goes down just as Coronation Street ends
8.30pm: Second episode of Coronation Street
8.35pm: Fall asleep on sofa
8.45pm: Crying from upstairs
8.47pm: Pick up cuddly toy
9.30pm: Eldest stumbles downstairs wanting glass of water
10pm: Crying
10.01pm: Nappy change
10.15pm: You go to bed
10.30pm: You fall asleep
10.32pm: Fox knocks bin over jolting you awake in ninja ‘must-protect-kids’ mode
10.45pm: Baby crying
10.46pm: Feed
11.45pm: 2nd child enters bedroom having had nightmare
12midnight: 2nd child fidgets uncontrollably in your bed
12.45am: Baby crying
12.50am: Arguing
1.00am: Feed and nappy change
1.00am – 3.00am: No sleep due to wondering what that noise is
3.30am – Half-sleep
4.00am – Baby crying
4.05am – No reason for crying
4.30am – Walk up and down stairs several times with baby
4.45am – Sleep finally!
5.00am – Birds start chirping
5.30am – Eldest awake
5.30am – CBeebies in bed
6.00am – More Peppa Pig than is healthy
7.00am – Alarm
