Babies Born ~ September 2007 #74

[AnyDream]

Cass, so relieved to hear the fire is all sorted out up your way - what a country summer baptism it has been for you! xxx Weather definitely kinder here today, still warm but we've have a few microdropules of rain, hopefully more to come. Sweet relief. Class teacher at school commented how different the kids all seemed this morning.

Well I think I'll definitely have to schlep over to Ikea then (although our store is a bit haphazard with having stuff in stock). Also thinking of getting one of those multicolour LED bulbs with a remote control - for DD1. That would look awesome in a plain frosted glass lamp. Getting very serious about sleep in this house since I read the research that came out in Dec that has pretty well proven (*block your eyes and ears, Arte*) that sleep deprivation causes brain damage - evidenced by increases of proteins in the blood that are biomarkers of brain damage after only one night without sleep. Jeppers and yickkers! I don't even want to think what days, weeks, months of it must be doing to us. It's also pretty clear that collectively, we (electrified westerners) sleep nearly 2 hours less on average than we did a few decades back, and nearly 45 mins less on average than only 10 years ago. Holy duvet, Batman! So, Cally, all power to you my dear, tucked up in bed at 9.30 at night, you'll probably outlast all of us .

**ETA - actually the Ikea light I wanted was one of those daisy-looking ones but they have recently recalled them (poo!) - something about the cord needing to be affixed to the wall with clips. I hope they bring them back because a) they come in every shade of the Ikea rainbow and b) they seem to be the right combination of dim enough but bright enough to function as nightlight as well as bedside lamp. But they have these other little critter things so that'll have to do.