Time for a rest tonight
Nick is at bowling, and we are between two birthdays today. Saturday there will be a party, and I am very much hoping there will be kids who show up. I am tired though; I've been trying to bring better order to the house, and the last three or four weeks, I've been putting in crazy numbers of hours just to try to make things look better. Well over 40 a week, I'd guess. Yet I still tripped on a box the other day while I had Erin in my arms because no one else is very much concerned about any sort of order!
Nick's uncle died; he hadn't been in great health, but the end was quick. He was down in Texas for a few days, and the plan is that he and his mom will return there soon for a couple of weeks. The ability to work from home certainly is useful in situations like this.
I'm just tired. I feel like a broken record here, but for years, if you'd have asked me what I wanted/needed most, I'd have said two weeks to sleep. Now I don't even know. However, with the floors and tables and dishes much more the way they should be, I notice the kids dancing around the house, I notice that I'm more willing to do something out of the ordinary (make Jello, for instance) because it isn't involving a huge amount of cleanup just to get started. Some of these things seem little, but it's so nice to see the cabinet with the bottles and the lunch items arranged in such a way that they don't start falling out as soon as the cabinet is opened.
The kids have the day off from school tomorrow. That means that I don't have to take them there or drive them back home at least. The weather hasn't been bad, but it's not warm enough most of the time to really go out, and there's not enough snow to do the snow activities either. If I remember, I'll post a photo of the ice from a couple of days ago, which was gorgeous.
Love to you all!