Tikkabik

There's a scene in last week's episode of Friends when Frank Buffay Jr. (Giovanni Ribisi) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) are talking about Frank's three kids, triplets. He suddenly leans across the couch with some urgency and says desperately, "I haven't slept in four years."

Then he tries to negotiate the adoption of one of his kids, at least for a couple of minutes until he comes to his senses and realizes he couldn't possibly live without them. It's a television moment I can totally relate to, especially on Saturday mornings when one of my kids is staying over at Grandma's. The volume level throughout the house is substantially lower than normal.

Now, if I could just catch up on the sleep, it'd be great. But alas, with one kid suffering massive allergy attacks and other insisting on sleeping in mummy and daddy's bed, that didn't happen.