Night Shifts As Parents After Daytime Work Is Unprofitable And Difficult

Scarlett Jess Perrodin
8 min readAug 12, 2021

A tribute to the sleep depriving roommates in our home

Photo by Ahmad Ossayli on Unsplash

“Someone’s here.”

The door slowly inches open, quietly enough that I should not have heard it, but my maternal sixth sense hears everything. The silhouette of a small three foot human stands in the doorway, our youngest of three children.

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Scarlett Jess Perrodin

Mental health advocate, abuse escape artist, maternal aura, and comic. Personal stories. Some hints of humor. A diamond in the rough is still a diamond.