Day 1

Everyone in the family woke up late this morning so I have to run around to get everyone where they need to be for 8:45am. I have two coffees and cereal with soya milk for breakfast.

Come evening time, I get the kids into bed for 7:45pm, before making some vegetable risotto followed by ice cream straight from the tub. I fall asleep on the sofa watching TV about 10pm, and wake up at 11:30pm before heading up to bed.

I can’t sleep once I’m there, however, so I go on my phone and scroll through social media for about an hour. At 12:30am my two-year-old comes in and sits on top of me – unsurprisingly, I struggle to sleep with her in the bed as she wiggles and grabs at me, so I get up for a toilet break.

I eventually manage to fall asleep about 2:30am, but I wake myself up by throwing my phone across the room at 3am – I fell asleep watching something about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and woke up trying to knock the head off of a zombie.

I finally fall asleep despite my room being very bright (there’s a street light right outside and our curtains don’t fit at all) and my husband snoring.

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