Progress!

Peanut #1 has calmed down the tantrums a lot, and that is a tremendous relief for everyone.

We need to get some house stuff done, more, soon, and that's a good reason to have a long weekend!

If I can get another section of wall up in the basement, I suspect the Project Manager will be pleased.

oooh, also, I should brew some beer.

Stabilizing....

So it HAS been a bit up and down since I got back, but things have stabilized a bit.

We've stopped trying to night train Peanut #1, and so, as a result, she slept 11 hours without waking up, which hopefully will result in fewer tantrums. It sure did this morning!

It's funny though, I've been running around all 10 days or so since I got back, trying to make myself more valuable to The Project Manager, basically just trying to Up My Game a bit, and it turns out she's been FREAKING OUT about how well I work and how much I get done and totally stressed by her inability to do the same things as easily.

The trick is I am far less busy than her, so I actually do way LESS work, just more of it at home

The Eagle has... crash-landed. (Editted)

Edit: Things seem better now. Everyone is a little less exhausted today.

So I'm back from two weeks away, leaving the Peanuts with the Project Manager.

And it is a complete shit-show.

My children and the Project Manager fought every day, basically for the whole day.
In fact, it's not really like I left them with the Project Manager at all. I left them with a series of baby sitters who passed the Project Manager from time to time.
Of their four scheduled activities, they made it to one a week, consistently.

The cost of babysitters for this trip I was on was startlingly high.

There were 9 bags of garbage on the back porch of the house. Just piled up. The side sidewalk of the house was blocked with piled garbage. There was no groceries in the house to eat, except what had been brought by friends.

One house-plant had been sprayed with vinegar. So it's dead.

Mail was just left on the floor of the house.

I don't think the Project Manager can hack it alone.

There is just so much to repair and rebuild, both physically and emotionally. I'm not sure this kind of trip is doable again. It's breaking my heart