Free Children

This was really not the best morning for Miss almost-1 to decide that 5:30 am was a fabulous time to start the day. Still less was it the best morning for me to discover that my coffeemaker had self-destructed overnight. And it was definitely not the best morning for my husband to be heading off for his first day at his new workplace, leaving me in sole charge of two children all day for the first time since the end of October last year.

On the other hand, it was quite a good morning for Miss almost-1 to decorate a nappy as a farewell present for her Daddy, rather than waiting til ten minutes after he'd left to go to work so I had to change her, as was her usual practice last year...