I Gotta Stop Taking Days Off

..., researching, and lesson planning for the day. I got home, listened to tunes and drank vino, getting in a little leisurely reading. This morning, I slept in (I was still tired from Sunday night's tossings and turnings), eventually got K out the door (at the ridiculously late 10:30), then went to the gym with her, where we lifted weights for an hour or so before I landed at my office, where I ...

...with my tossing and turning and fuming and dancing. I don't understand why people make such an effort to doll a situation up when it's clear that in a short time the ups and downs and tossings and turnings of life will eventually uproot the sheets and upset the silverware placement. I don't understand why people pretend to be something they're not. For a long time I thought that when people turned...

Another productive, but not productive enough, weekend.

... "green sheets" for April, finish loading the bathroom with the STUFF I took out to paint (cleaning it as I go), remove everything else from the top of the bed, process currently-clean laundry, do another several loads of laundry (including the bed-sheets), re-make the bed (difficult solo), about a million and a half small cleanings and/or tossings. And, in under 2 weeks, go pick up the spouse.

Laughter

Ever since Sam was tiny he's been laughing at things I can't see.  My husband and I used to sit on the sofa in the evenings listening to the sounds of Sam going to sleep (the tossings, the turnings, the rustlings and rattlings that indicated his dragon was getting a good chewing) and suddenly there would be an eruption of gurgling baby laughter.  He'd be lying there, alone in the dark, and ...