Obligations.

The painting is well underway upstairs, although we will be doing the final spot check in the morning with good daylight before the final room cleanup and reset begins. The bug put in an hour's worth of heroic effort painting the edges near the trim with a small brush, and she got a special painting hairdo which meant she actually let me put her hair in a ponytail for approximately 2.5 seconds. She does not approve of hairstyling in general, although she will occasionally let me put some curls in her hair on truly momentous occasions like Easter and school picture day.

This will mean night 2 of sleeping on the floor/couch in the living room due to room rearrangement, and this is unlikely to be restful but it's better than the alternative of sleeping in a not-quite-dry-latex-smelling room with the window open during a mild snowstorm. The children are both in bed and nominally asleep which is great but also unlikely to last. Tuck learned to make siren noises yesterday afternoon and made sure we knew he had gained this valuable knowledge this morning at 2 a.m. which was mildly alarming until I realized there wasn't an ambulance outside in my half-awake fogginess.

Tomorrow church, then the cleanup. And perhaps a few long-overdue thank-you notes, and grant writing, and a few minutes of bliss visualizing a blank to-do list...