Peanut #1

Feels ALL THE EMOTIONS ALL THE TIME... and man, it's hard on her.

Complicating things somewhat is that her mom, The Project Manager, also feels ALL THE THINGS all the time, so it can be a bit tense when they get to feuding.

I mean, I think it's just a phase that she outgrows, but the Project Manager has to survive this. I guess that's my job: Keep reminding that survival is going to happen.

"None of this is personal"
"This is normal child dev"
"This is a phase"
"Your frustration is fine to feel"

Use of space

There are 2 full-size artistic THREE, correction, there are THREE full-scale artistic endeavours going on in our house right now, which means that there's also dishes, toys, and laundry scattered everywhere.

I guess it's part of how we've chosen to live! I wonder if there's food in our fridge... there's condiments.  Kids like condiments, right?

Heh... sometimes we do this right

Last night we threw a little bbq for the salespeople who come to the Prairie Metropolis Shoe Show.  A small gathering of about 25 people... so I cooked about 25 steaks on the BBQ.

At this point this morning, we have two fridges FULL of food. Like _FULL_ of food.

I have no idea what we're going to do about this LOL.

There was an interesting moment, where I realized that I was done. I just went full strength all day, and then just crashed. Hard. Just went up to bed and lay down and went to sleep.

I pulled it all together, amazingly, but it was a very sudden and interesting crash