Everyone was against me from the start.

Kid knows that he's allowed to watch Netflix/play games at 6:30-7:30 before school. There's nothing we can do about him waking up at 5-6 AM so we just encourage him to play quietly in his room, reading and playing with toys until 6:30. Usually he's pretty good about it, sometimes he falls back asleep... but this morning he was bugging me every 10 minutes to let him go play with the TV. Eventually around 6 I caved since he obviously wasn't getting any sleep... just in time for the cat to start harassing me about feeding her. I kept shoving her off the bed hoping she'd get the message, but she just wouldn't stop meowing at top frequency. Again, I caved, staggered into the kitchen, plopped a spoonful of kitty food in her dish, and staggered back into the bedroom.

Then, of course sensing that I was awake, SmallArmistice kept barging in every 10 minutes again wanting to talk about Minecraft.

Man, why did I ever think having kids and pets was a good thing? I don't think I've slept properly since my son was born. Almost 7 years of sleep deprivation.