Rowan Tree and Red Thread

Our kids gave us a difficult night. I was up to Oscar at 12.45 when he woke up and refused to sleep in his Moses basket, but was perfectly happy to sleep in my arms. Twice I attempted to put him down to sleep in the basket and twice his eyes flew open to accuse me of stealing away his lovely body temperature pillow. Eventually sammywol took him into the bed to feed him and he slept. I was awake again around 2.00, but was so bleary I can't recall now why. Rowan woke briefly at 5.20 to complain that her room was too dark, so I got up to her and turned up her light.

Then she woke up properly at 6.00, saying "It's 7 o'clock Dada, time to get up." We really need to work on her reading the clock. I did manage to convince her that it was, in fact, 6.00, and she dozed again until about 6.45, when she got me up for good.

Tea. I need more tea.