Oh So Quiet

As I type this, the house is strangely quiet. No Diego singing in the background about rescuing animals. No J complaining about how boring Diego is, and asking to watch his show instead. No E, insisting on "Eh-go. Eh-go. EH-GO!" to J.

Both kids are in school.

K and I came back just a few minutes ago, after a shopping trip: to Kohl's to get bedsheets, to Vons for groceries, and to Target to get J's birthday presents. Can you imagine, we actually did ALL that in about two hours. When there are no kids around who have their own ideas of what they want to be looking at, and who have their own ideas of which direction they want to be walking, it is amazing how quickly you can get things done.

Truth be told, I have been looking forward to today, so much so that I do feel a little guilty about it! But those strings that tie E to me have to be snipped at some point - and today, we made another small snip.