Gotta love it
Out-of-context quote of the week:"I wish you could steal other people's poop" -- Alice, 11/8/09Don't ask.

I got sunshine, on a cloudy day...
Hey, check out my girls!!Sammy's 2nd grade pictureAlice's 7th grade picture

Some things
Today is a day in which I am trying to polish off a lot of random little tidbits of jobs and loose ends. I have to spray all of our shoes with waterproofing stuff. I have to replace a broken toilet seat. I have to add some logos to our conference thank-you page. In that spirit, here is a blog of random little tidbits and loose ends.- My kids are all healthy again, but many many people at school (and elsewhere in our social circle) are still sick. Here's hoping that this bug that's been making its way around the county is H1N1 and not some random annoyance, because it'd be nice to be immune to H1N1 now.- I freaking love this:

Functioning
Thank you to everyone for their comments and support. I'm more functional today, for some reason, even though nothing on yesterday's list is any better today. I hate that my mood is so unconnected to reality sometimes. *shrug* I'm really looking forward to the weekend, and snuggling up lots with my kids. Anth is going out of town, so I guess we'll do a big pile of nothing until he gets back.Before I start on my nothing, though, I wanted to post a few recipes:Oven-baked Chicken Fingers with Honey Mustard -- this was Wednesday's wil

Down, down, down I go...
I've been trying really hard to post here. I hate letting the blog languish, because what's the point of a blog without posts? It's hard, though -- I'm fighting some really massive depression right now, for a lot of reasons, including:8 days until the anniversary of my mom's deathSammy's difficulties separating to go to school (ongoing, escalating, baffling, and heartbreaking)I loved the extra hour of sleep, but the early nights are bothering me in an unprecedented way this yearI'm getting pretty fed up with the level of care that my cat is requiring of meWe have mice and can't figure out how to not have miceMany of my friends are hurting really badly ri