Before having children I had no idea what sleep deprivation truly was.  I used to stay up until three in the morning playing computer games with my husband but then I got to sleep straight through to 10 am.  Wow…what a complete waste of time.  In fact now that I look back on my life before children it seems to me that I just wasted the days away.  Had I known what was ahead of me I would have worked hard and savoured every selfish moment I had to waste.  Having the girls has just shown me how much spare time I had and how little of it I have now.  Not that I would change a thing…. I LOVE having kids and I live for being a “stay at home mum”.  I am just a little exhausted after seven years of true sleep deprivation.  I feel like throttling parents who have kids who sleep through from a young age.  Not very “Christian” of me I know but cut me some slack…I’m tired!