Got up at 9am without an alarm. My body clock just wakes me up in the morning now. I really have to work on this because I actually can't sleep in now. I've trained myself to exist on so little sleep that I can't stay in bed once I open my eyes.

The kids were ready to be picked up by ex-mother-in-law Rose at 10am, and they went off to visit cousins for the weekend. Mia and I just sat about doing various projects and soaked up the endless blissful silence of not having the kids around. Deep joy. Yeah of course we love the kids, they are beautiful, wonderful, well rounded, funny, intelligent and glorious people. I'd be proud to know them if I wasn't their dad. But they are also noisy, irritating, large, all-elbows and knees, sprinkle sweet wrappers into every corner of the house and always in your face.

Fell asleep to more "Stargate Atlantis". Zzzzz