Parenting Illustrated with Crappy Pictures. Amber Dusick

copying recipes I will never make. And now I have to get up in six hours. Oops.

      But it isn’t always the computer. You know how kids don’t want to go to sleep because they fear they are going to miss something? Sometimes they are right. Don’t tell my kids.

      My husband and I have been using our new freedom to do adult things together:

      Like eat massive amounts of junk food while we watch TV.

      We know we are taking a huge risk with this behavior. If we ever get busted eating late-night cookies and ice cream, our kids will never sleep again. We’ve almost been caught:

      So we need to get smarter or we will destroy everything. Like our lives.

      I also do good stuff late at night. Like write this sentence.

      HOW KIDS WAKE UP

      The reason it is so excruciatingly painful to be woken up in the morning isn’t necessarily because I stayed up too late the night before or because my kids wake up before the sun does.