Sleeping

My apartment's paper-thin walls are becoming a problem. Now, as a tbjkids editor and someone who's fond of children, I should probably be more sympathetic to the new parents in the apartment next to mine – but that baby had better start sleeping though the night or I’m going to go crazy.

I guess I’ve been spoiled because I come from an especially sleepy (some might say lazy) family. During my brother’s teenage years we used to tease him for his perpetual sleepy eyes and requests for “five more minutes” to recover in the morning. Well, it seems like he’s having the last laugh now that he’s become a father because is sleepy disposition has been passed onto his daughter Rosie.

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