I’m going to say today was a good day. I might even stretch that, and say today was great, and it took no extra effort for it to be so. Somehow my easy Sunday mood stretched throughout the whole day, and as a result, the children were more agreeable, and hubby and I had something called ‘conversation.’ Amazing.
What helped, I think, is that my stress level has reduced since completing my course work for this semester. Of course, I’m still obligated to finals, but test taking has never made me nervous in the slightest sense.
The kids, I know, enjoyed my real presence in their activities, bringing me their favorite books for me to read out loud to them. We drew new pictures for the refrigerator, and listened to ‘The Wheels On The Bus’ for two hours. (You read right…and I survived.) We made little villages from every toy in the house and then toppled them over, and made them again. The kids appreciated having me back, that they forgot their daily ritual of Sabotaging The Laptop. Everyday, one of them, usually EJ, the preschooler, would run into our room to slam the laptop shut. I have concluded he had perceived my computer to have taken his place for my attention and affections, and by destroying it, would right the imbalance in the house, while simultaneously introducing negative attention (any attention is good attention at this point).
Hubby has been ill today, and we suspect take-out curry chicken to be the culprit. So of course that meant me taking up the slack, which as I’ve been describing wasn’t at all as unpleasant as it sometimes is.
Because I’m struggling to focus on this entry, I’m going to end here, and prepare my To Do lists for tomorrow. As much as I look forward to this part of the night when everyone in the household is asleep, I get tired too.
