Day 2

So today was definitely more productive. Sundays usually are. No plans and Ainslea actually stayed in her pajamas all day long. It was the usual day of cleaning at the end of the week that makes me exhausted. But then added to that was the outside cleaning too.

Travis obliged me one final wish of removing the beautiful big blue truck with no seats and dented windshield from our back yard...and i found a salvage company to come and haul it away and still pay me for it!! SO it dawned on me that even though it won't add to my financial gain, they get paid by scrap metal and want parts from the vehicle, so i went through the garage and yard to retrieve all the remnants of a project that wasn't and threw them all in the back of the truck WOOOHOOOO no more bumpers, no more fallen down carport in the back yard, no more wires and scrap metal that mice will find a home in this winter YIPPEE. I took a sledgehammer to the tv stand to break it down so i could get it in the car to go to the dump and cleaned up the side of the garage to make my pathway to the backyard (or at least it get ready for another motivational day)

The girls are doing well and played relatively well together all day. Lorelei is getting very frustrated that she can't communicate with us. Her shrieking is quite loud, but i'm actually very proud of her for picking up a few signs in sign language to add to the basic words she has mastered already.
All done
All gone
Mommy
Daddy
and something related to Sissy
kitty
ack ack (the sound a duck makes)

Ainslea kept herself busy with crafts and tv with her sister, which is something im very proud of her for. She would rather watch PBS with Lorelei than her nickelodeon channel. She was also very helpful and caring towards me today. Which is a complete 180 from when she and Travis would gang up on me. She is somewhat aware of the difficulties that lie ahead, but on the flip side when she made a halloween craft she said, "we can hang it in the mud room so when Daddy gets home he will walk right into it." Its those things that are indicating that she doesn't really get the details of this term. But talking about it and keeping our routine seems to be ok for now.

AS for me, my feet hurt from being up all day long and I'm realising that there's no one to rub my feet anymore. But otherwise its a good day.