An Inauspicious Start to the Day - Vermont Style

11.00 pm - Put down book and turn off light to go to sleep
11.30 pm - Emma throws up
2.45 am - Emma throws up again
3.00 am - Mice who have recently taken up residence in house are apparently playing castanets with spoons in kitchen sink downstairs - Sara turns on hall light and yells at them
3.15 am - Mice are playing louder - Sara goes to stairwell and throws socks at them
5.00 am - Emma throws up again
6.00 am - Emma throws up again - Sara goes down to let her outside
7.45 am - Sara guzzles iced tea and eats stale rice cake and peanut butter
8.45 am - Sara guzzles leftover coffee
9.05 am - Sara gets dressed to drag exhausted self and Emma to vet