As a friend recently said to me, 'summer is great, until you have kids'... Personally, I feel she was forgetting about the fact that, as a parent, you're perfectly entitled to blow up a paddling pool on a hot day and lounge in it to your heart's content without any judgment. But I see her point.
Become a parent, and those long, hot summer days suddenly mean overheated children waking up at 4 am when the dawn light first enters their bedrooms, and then trying to convince your child it really *is* bedtime despite the fact it's still bright daylight at 8pm.
