Tired and the days just blur
Somehow time has slipped into past and we are here now. Schedules click over, the sun rises and sets, the stars continue their paths around the sky, and this week the Orionids are making lovely meteor showers early early in the southern sky; not that we are awake at that time of day.
The leaves are changing, the chill in the air is coming and going; we had a hot day today of 55F. Which makes it pleasant to go out with LittleBud for an afternoon of exploring. He’s feeling a little ginger today and has had a crusty face all day. TheBubster has been exceptionally strong willed the last few days even defriending me out of spite over an ordered bath. We had to have a reset day, so yesterday I let her win the “I don’t want to go to school argument,” and stay at home with me, although I foiled her plan and took her to MIT; she loves several interesting features of the campus and the experience really engages her imagination.
TheWife is working hard, too hard I’d say if I were absolutely certain that I could get away with it. Sometimes she slips put in the morning while the kids are asleep next to me and gets home late after being in meetings all day so is offline from our normal communication channels. There is a new accepted level of stress in the air and things get a touch testy sometimes. We are working through it and comforting ourselves with the knowledge that this, too, shall pass.