DP used to get home from work and cook dinner, change a nappy, give DD a bottle and I would think "wow, aren't I lucky, he gets home from work but he does all this stuff."

Now I've gone back to work and let me tell you doing those things after being at work all day is A PIECE OF CAKE. It really is, compared to doing it at the end of the day when you've been up from 6am.

Look, I've cracked it lately. DP is a shiftworker so often goes to bed at 3amish so goes to sleep in a separate room so he's not woken up at the crack of dawn. Fair enough, he needs his sleep especially as he's a train driver so can't be sleepy at work.

But he's been on leave recently while I'm still working and was still going to sleep in a separate room. Came up with all the excuses in the world. I know it's really because he doesn't want to be woken up by DD in the morning because she still sleeps in our room. So two can play at that game, I've said what's good for the gander is good for the goose so I've told him I'm sleeping in the spare room for the next month and he can get up to DD every morning.

I'm on Day Five so far. No surrender. Funnily enough, DP is going to bed much earlier these days after spending all day with DD.