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I did not sleep well; I haven’t lifted in ages and I kept getting pins and needles in my fingers. Very annoying!

I got up at 8 for the 11 month window. I got both rooms, so that was nice, and then I set up the car rental. Flights are not being booked yet that far out on my airline of choice, so I’ll have to wait there. I went back to bed, but still had a headache when I got up, and off and on throughout the day.

A. did some but not all of her homework. She really didn’t want to do the social studies, which is weird because she usually likes doing it and does not need much if any help. It turns out they are doing a persuasive writing piece and she wanted to do abortion rights, and the teacher … balked? Maybe is the right term. She didn’t say no precisely, but tried an unsuccessful redirect to women’s rights or suffrage. A. didn’t want to do that, and so wasn’t working on the assignment at all. Once I understood, I stopped pushing, and had A. pull up her email so we could send an explanation to the teacher. The teacher, it turned out, had sent A. email on Friday which A. had not read as she wasn’t really expecting email (wow, this is a thing adults do, too! I have never understood that, but weird to see A. go from obsessively checking email to not checking it at all — also a thing adults do! It’s like it is its own developmental pathway!). The email was an effort on the teacher’s part to find out how “mom” felt about A.’s proposed topic. So! Guess what! Mom approves!

A. and K. had their portal playdate. I also worked with K.’s mom on some trip related stuff, which went very smoothly. For years, I’ve been struggling with how to make these big group trips go well, and a lot of them (not this one) involve my sister, who it is particularly impossible to get to work on the various planning / preparation components. Now that I have accepted the impossibility of getting her to work on things and switched my efforts to B. when I travel with my sister’s family, thing’s are going better there, but ALSO I am now trying all those various things I tried and failed to accomplish with my sister, with _other people_, _after_ having identified which member of the group is the group’s organizer for this type of stuff and boy, howdy, this works so much better!

Basically, if you are ever the idiot putting together some kind of multi-family party / travel / outing, ask each subgroup who in the group organizes that stuff for them, and only work with those people. ASK! I wasn’t asking. I am an idiot. But I am in recovery from being an idiot! Progress!

Family zoom happened. MIL continues to test negative and also feel pretty lousy. SIL took a break from her peloton to join the zoom after I texted about 20 minutes in, and it was interesting to hear more details on both what happened with the testing over Christmas and also what the law school is doing. A. tested negative for most of a week while symptomatic. So, I’m back to being kinda skeptical of antigen tests. *shrug* If you’re sick, stay home! Whatever.

I got A. through the shower and I got the sheets washed on 3 beds. Accomplishments! I also did some vacuuming.

Oh, and Sunbasket arrived. That was nice, altho wow, I really hate the smell of scallops cooking.

T. is binging Liberty Kids.
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