I love to sleep. Sleeping is one of my favorite activities (yes, it qualifies as an activity in my book). I have always been a person who needs a lot of sleep and could easily sleep ten hours a night every night. I think the hardest thing about having kids (as in the day-to-day kind of hard) is not being able to sleep more or less whenever I want. Before I had kids, I was in school and/or working, of course, but there was nothing stopping me from crawling into bed as soon as I got home, or even from rushing home to catch a quick nap in the hour or two I had as a break between classes and my job. And on weekends, o glorious weekends, it wasn’t at all unusual for me to stay in bed until one o’clock in the afternoon or even later. I crave sleep the way other people crave chocolate. Some days it’s all I can think about. I wish I could put my family in suspended animation one day a week and sleep the whole day away, free from interruption.