I’ve unplugged myself the past few days. Actually, I’ve been fairly busy with life and I was enjoying the break from constant connectivity. On Thursday, I realized I was hitting a pretty big depression. Frick. I hate my monthly depression cycle. It affects Jay and the kids. Friday, I took off because we had several daytime activities. We had a teacher workshop day, so I knew I would never get any work done at home. I had lunch with a friend who was also taking off Friday and it was nice to try to just be. I did have a full evening, but then I tried to just relax on the weekend. It didn’t quite work with the depression.

I am in the middle of filling out kindergarten forms and Summer camp forms (most are already done) and all sorts of Things Which Grownups Must Do. I am not very happy that I do the grownup thing so much. Sigh.

Yesterday, Luna read "Hop on Pop " to me! She did really well! I was shocked and guilted because we don’t spend as much time helping her read as we did with Soleil. Sigh. 

We did show the girls the shuttle launch on Sunday. (for those non science geeks, that would be the space shuttle Discovery). They loved it. I had to explain why I suck air every time I hear  "go throttle up" (that was the last transmission to Challenger before it blew). I also had to explain MECO (pronounced mee-ko), the girls laughed when they heard Mission Control give Discovery the prepare for MECO command. We explained what is means (Main Engine Cut Off) and we watched it happen. It now is the catch phrase in our house. MECO!