At the moment, I'm way too beat to entertain what days 4 and 5 have brought. Some good, some bad. Some definitely ugly. Instead I think, for now I'm just going to share a few things that have recently come to mind:

• Being a single parent bites.

• And, yet its extremely heartening and empowering.

• There is one clean bottle left in the cupboard, a dishwasher full of clean dishes, a sink full of dirty ones, and for the first time in my life I don't care.

• I forgot to get the mail out of the mailbox since Saturday. (Good thing Keith can't read this after all.)

• Mom doesn't always know best.

• Sometimes it doesn't matter if Mom knows best or not, you have to suck it up and ask for help anyway. (Is that the very definition of growing up, or what?)

• Being alone with young children for more than 24 hours causes dementia.

That's all for now. More later, thanks for reading. : )

Cindy