days at home

 6:30 am, but everyone is still sleeping. The kids have been up a bit late in the last few days. Our trampoline arrived so there is a sort of festive mood in the air. The Scales and Malinowskis both visited this weekend. The weather's been gorgeous. The new pup is really fitting in. It's been an amazing week to have off-- just need to convince myself I deserve it :/ Last night at bed time Lena gave me the low down on the Amp world gossip. Jimmy has been getting into "ores" as a consequence of minecraft.  I have a busy week of siders, most of them I'm not looking forward to. Generally they just cause problems. They never go the way the client thinks. It's adding to my stress but it's better than being idle I suppose. Mondays seem to be the worst for me. I think I live my weekends guilt-free, because everyone is off on the weekends and everyone is enjoying leisure activities. Jean usually works so I typically have a slate of activities to meet with the kids-...

 It's a Friday morning . Jean is getting ready for work.  She's such a babe. I'll never get over it. Lena is in her room remote schooling for two weeks after a mild cold last week. Jimmy is off on Fridays so he's cuddled up on the couch playing minecraft and legos simultaneously. He's got Lena's old puffy purple blanket that he's inherited-- it is absolutely the best blanket in the house. I used to sleep with it on weekends in the basement until he discovered it. It's finally sunny again after three days of rain, so everyone's mood is up, I can tell. Still a little cold, though, so I'll have to wait another day to put this trampoline together. The kids are absolutely going to burst when they see it. Got Jean's grandfather's stereo working again. Listening to a playlist I made-- a sort of personal history map of my musical tastes since first grade. From The Four Seasons to ACDC to Pegboy to June of 44 to whatever nonsense came after that. ...