I had plans to do more yesterday but life caught up with me. I have a halfway clean kitchen but I didn't get all the writing I wanted to do done. It's frustrating but it happens to everyone who is a writer, I think. I have gone out into the weather to get hot dog rolls for dinner tonight. It was colder than it looked outside. Things are thawing out but it's still chilly. I was hoping to see some Duck Weed out but nothing was growing. I suspect it may have been pulled up last autumn when the neighbors were out in the garden tidying up.
I wanted to get a start on editing book 7 but I can't find the thumb drive with it on it. It's buried in a mass of stuff in the center drawer of the desk. It's no big crisis. But it is another in a heap of annoyances today. I woke up at 0400 and was unable to get back to sleep. I accidentally woke up Beloved as I was getting my breakfast. He grumbled a bit and then went from the couch to the bed before falling back to sleep. Somewhere along the way, he made a ridiculous comment which made me start laughing. That woke up the kids and he went 'good luck' as he walked off to bed. I think he was getting even with me.
Going through the pile of mail sitting on the table, I found that the school sent us a card offering condolences on the death of my father-in-law. (That happened a little while back and has been part of the reason why I've been busy.) I think it'll be more meaningful to the kids than anyone else. The boys have been having a rough time of it. They're not sobbing over the man but their teenage sullenness has shifted to a sober expression of disappointment. The kids were prepared for his death to some extent but when they think we're not looking they express their sadness to each other.
Supporting kids through life transitions is pretty hard. Death is not exactly an easy thing. But, the boys are doing their best to make their way through it all and be as supportive for their father as they can be. Fortunately, not everything is awful in their eyes. My eldest is excited that the weather is warming up and looking forward to exercising outside. He has a goal to get a whole bunch of muscle built up. My youngest is making time to hang out with his friend next door and they're laughing at old Godzilla movies. So, I think they're going to be all right.
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