Hmm, There is a theme lately….My sanity is gone. I think that is it!

Things, in general are going well at the Space House. We have made significant progress in several projects around the house. The railing for the downstairs stairwell is up and solid, so Jay’s Father can’t rip it out of the wall this time. The new light fixture over the main stairwell is up and filled with CFLs, so I don’t feel guilty about using it all of the time. Soleil’s new Elfa closet system is up and I love it!  

I am still at a loss of what to do about school work. Soleil comes home with so much paper from school. I don’t want to recycle it all, I don’t want to keep it all. I don’t have time to scan it all for future generations. I just don’t know what to do? I also find little notes from the school mingling with her papers. Drives me batty! I often miss them and then miss the date. Just last night, I found the paper that the teacher sent home about teacher/parent conferences. It is due today. I filled it out at breakfast.

Luna did something that blew me away yesterday. She wrote her name! Yes! Her name is only 4 letters long, but she really did it! She wrote it out and got all of the letters correctly written, nothing backwards and in the right order. She has known how to spell her name, but to make the connection between the letters and writing it out? Not until yesterday!

I am trying to just enjoy where the kids are in life. Where Soleil is learning more and more to read. Where she calls up stairs when she is watching TV to ask for definitions. Where Luna is trying hard to learn how to read letters and make the sounds. I suspect she will be reading sooner than Soleil was, mostly because Soleil is teaching her too. I am enjoying watching them run and play, work out issues and just be. But it is hard. Parenting is so much harder than I thought. The time commitment is so huge. I mean, yeah, you know you are in this for the long run, but for the bathroom breaks too? OR overnights? Or never getting to sleep past 6:30am again in your life?

I just took a break from this post to talk to one of the scientists. She had breast cancer when Luna was 1, so I avoided her like the plague since Luna was often emitting green snot from various orifices. I just found out that she also had cancer of the fallopian tubes. This bites. I wish cancer would just go away. AWAY! Too many people have it, had it, etc. But we didn’t just talk about science and cancer. We talked about PEOPLE. How people who work together don’t KNOW each other. How that is hard. How stressed we all are. How women in particular are stressed in the workplace and in science in general.

And now my brain is on a different path….