A bit of hither and yon

The Peanuts are in great shape, and sassy as sass monsters, and all seems well and ready to roll for Xmas at our house.

I think _I_ am ready for Xmas, I think?

There's a thing at work, where money is tight, and I'm stopping being slow, because my joy in my work came from getting things done, and I'm not doing a lot of that.

I used to get a jump out of _solving_ problems, and I don't seem to be able to do that these days with people being so cautious to do anything.

It feels like one of those moments where we can, with some effort, push forward hard into a new way of doing things.

Peanut #2

So Peanut #2 is a very energetic young child, and this has started to cause some minor issues:

1) She cannot concentrate for long, often. But she can, sometimes.
2) She cannot. stop. talking. for. 10. seconds. This is causing some stress in the school system.
3) The combination of not concentrating and not shutting up is making it difficult to teach things.

So I shall approach this in the Familial Way: I shall read to her, and only her thank you very much Peanut #1 get out of our faces please, on her own, every night, so that she gets used to sitting and absorbing. And we may even keep track of her siting and concentrating and reward her accordingly.

Xmas busyness

So far so good with not hating Christmas! Yay!

We had a lovely morning yesterday all at home together, like domestic bliss. It was cool! Then we got crazy super busy again, as we do. But the morning was super.

It becomes... it becomes a challenge to our commitment to Church, unfortunately.

Because it is our _only_ unencumbered family time... .well, ok, maybe Sunday afternoons. But those are also prime errand times.

Anyway, it was nice, and I've bought some essential Christmas presents and not hated humanity and that's all good.