Nothing New

I am happy to report that I have nothing to report today. Yesterday was wonderfully ordinary. I took Kaitlyn shopping for shoes and shorts for track. When I got home, I made lunch and set to work cleaning my downstairs. I enlisted the boys' help. (One thing I love about Brendan is that he's too young to realize that he's supposed to hate chores! He was having a heyday cleaning the toilet, here!)

I'll admit, I was in a bit of a state of emotional agitation yesterday, which is what drove me to clean for something like six hours. I get that way after Mark's worst spells. I think it gives me the illusion that I can change something, even if it's just the sparkle on the porcelain in my home! (Interestingly, I know at least one of my sisters does the same thing when she's agitated. Who needs antidepressants! Just break out the Ajax and an old toothbrush and we'll clean our way through our angst!)

I put on a movie at 8:30 after the boys were in bed. It's called Nine Lives and is really interesting. It's snippets of ... well, nine lives! I guess they overlap somehow in the end. But I only got into the third snippet before I had to turn it off and go to sleep. Maybe tonight I'll finish it. But right now, I hear Brendan blowing raspberries over on the air mattress. I guess that's my cue that this day has officially started.