By Eddy One of the biggest lessons I have learned so far as a parent is “it’s the little things that count.” Since sleep has become a premium at our house, the youngest goes to sleep around 10-11 the oldest wakes up around 5:30 -6:30, you can imagine how even an extra 15 minutes of sleep can be valuable.  I can vividly remember waking up at 5:50 and seeing the clock then immediately closing my eye savoring the pleasure of an extra 10 minutes.  Believe me those extra minutes make a difference to a parent, they are the difference between having a good day or snapping at even the littlest thing and don’t even get me started on the merits of uninterrupted sleep, give me 4 or 5 hours of uninterrupted sleep over 7 or 8 hours of waking up every hour or so any day. Yet things didn’t used to be so easy, if you rewind a couple of months ago, Big Brother was getting up at all different hours of the night and morning.  Big brother was then cranky all day due to lack of sleep … [Read more...]