The family that sleeps together...?

No, this is not an image of my family being huge supporters of the 'family bed' practice. Our bed is our bed and no one else's. I made a strict policy before we had kids that they would sleep in their own beds and not in ours...so the kids have never slept in our beds. But every morning, when Dad doesn't have to leave too early to get to work, we get the kids up, or they get up themselves and cuddle with Dad. They like it when he hides under the covers so they can find him, and then they cuddle with him and stick their freezing cold toes all over his warm body. We either turn on some tunes, or play eye-spy, or enjoy some tickle-torture time. It's a pretty sweet experience, and one that I hope doesn't change soon. I'm sure one day we'll just look back on it fondly from quite a distance as our kids will be too busy and too cool to climb into bed with mom and dad...but right now, it's pretty awesome.