We survived the first night – although it took her a long time to key down from the excitement. Today when I got upstairs she had dressed herself and made her bed. (It’s water play day today, so that’s a skirted swimsuit under her clothes.) I still need to rehang the artwork that used to…
she did it
It took three times as long as fifteen nights, but she did it. Last night she looked like a miniature Rocky, fist pumping the air, psyching herself up for fifteen. “I can do it! I can get fifteen!” And then she did – no whining / fake crying, no stalling, no calling to go to…
project dining room
Work continues at a slow but steady pace through the house. Slow is sort of an inaccurate word here – there’s rarely anything too slow about our lives. But slow is the progress of house projects in the middle of all the rest of life. We’ve been clearing out the dining room – packing or…