Easing into normal

Andie's back from North Carolina, Bean's back in school and all is right with the world.
I love my child. Of course I love her. She has a fantastic personality, she's smart and well behaved, and she has a great sense of humor. Oh, and she's my child. The sun rises and sets on her... but I am SOOOOO glad she's back in school. It's really sad, she was only home for a few days through the entire break and she was driving me freaking nuts. She does this... talking thing (I know, where'd she get that charming trait?) and after about an hour of her narrating everything she and I (and the people on TV) do I'm ready to run into the street screaming.

And Andie... she visits her mom every year for Christmas, leaving me all alone with my own family and the people at work for two or three weeks at a time. This year her family broke all "Bad Christmas" records. Even the death and the sister-feud in my life are pretty tame compared to her Christmas hell.

But she's back!! And we went to a movie last night (Night at the Museum) for the first time in almost a month. As much as I have loved the break after last semester it is nice to have some normalcy back. Hospice starts on Monday and classes start on the 17th... it's nice to be able to ease back into my crazy schedule after a month of sleeping a lot and accomplishing nothing. I am not looking forward to this semester at all. Nine hours of class (Nine!!! Are they trying to KILL ME?!?) which includes one class in research methods. That involves the maths. Not a big fan of the maths.


I am also getting ready to start a new knitting project. I'm not willing to share it yet... I will post pictures if it works out. I looked at the pattern and it seems easy enough but the pattern is sort of... involved... and I may still be in a place where rows and rows of garter stitch are as much as I can manage. We'll see. I also have more projects than I can name on the needles... I need to sort through and frog what will never be finished and finish what I can. I could do that right now, actually...

Or I could just nap. You know, while I still can.