I have to say thanks to all of you who are making this blog the most popular part of my website. If you would, please take a minute to introduce yourselves. I have to know who these patient and kind-hearted people are. Sometimes these pages are full of nothing much, and still you come by and look, and I appreciate that.

I slept in this morning. After I made two trips to the grocery store where my son bags groceries. First to drop him off and the second to take him the lunch he so diligently packed and then let sit in the refrigerator. I can't blame him. It's Friday. He's worked a lot of overtime this week too, one day staying till almost 4 in the afternoon. That's a long day for anyone! Then he comes home and tackles geometry, and the kid hates math. Almost as much as me. I worked with numbers all day yesterday and was just as drained as I could be come nighttime. Numbers, while they never surprise, haunt or get stuck on you, are ruthless and demanding. They take a toll on me.

I came home with every intention of tackling the house that I didn't lift a finger on yesterday--taxes are just about finished, yay!--and to that end I took out trash, emptied the dishwasher and put a roast in the crock pot (with onion soup mix and 1/2 c red wine. The smell is making my stomach growl as I sit here), seeded the next load of dishes with a few strays lying about the kitchen and living room and then I hit a wall. Nothing to be done but go back to bed. I caught a glimpse of the day out the window in the laundry room--it's a half window and all I see is sky and trees and the top of the neighboring house--and everything was gray and shrouded. It reminded me of the old black-and-white movies when they do the close-up of the flawless actress and it's blurred just a touch.

The rain started in earnest shortly after I sunk in. It was a perfect lullabye. And don't tell my son, but I slept till 10:10. How indulgent! But you know, I feel better now than I have in days. I have always been a strong advocate of having at least one day a week on which my children could sleep until they wake up. I think it's a nice policy for adults as well. Sometimes the body just needs that little extra rest to rejuvenate.

It is still raining on and off, and between bouts there's slashes of sunshine. The clouds are winning though. We have had some of the most gorgeous spring weather imaginable. It's not even been that windy which is saying something in Oklahoma. But tonight it's supposed to turn cooler, with the threat of severe weather along with it. And then all weekend long we get a flashback to fall, with nighttime lows dipping into the 30s. I'm dying to buy flowers but with this in the forecast I've made myself hold off until the temperatures rebound again.

So I think I'll call this today's blog. I have a series of errands I need to run and I might as well do them while we aren't under a tornado watch. Plus I have to make myself finish up those dad-burned numbers. The bad thing about me is that when I feel so good about yesterday's progress I'm tempted to "treat" myself too soon (procrastinate!) and then I'm under the gun again. At any rate.

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