Either the (yellow) wallpaper goes, or I do!

Love this photo (taken by Nanny Lorna on one of her visits to the rustic little cabin in the woods, a.k.a. graveyard of the fallen ants): the wee girls look so grown up and serious (they haven't entered fully into the spirit of ant-killing, as I have), with their devoted yet scatterbrained (doesn't "pregnancy brain" self-correct after pregnancy?) Mom grinning naively from present chaos back at the past and into the future. Meanwhile, creamy, flaky, yellowy-white drywall is raining down at the big house, along with what Jonathan (now helping Steve daily with the renovations, along with co-worker Adam) refers to as "significant evidence of rodent infestation." I'm not sure if I have that quote exactly right, but you get the idea (if I haven't corrupted my sentence structures with too many brackets--oops! I did it again! It's the way I think these days, you see...) Gosh, when I think of all I planned to accomplish while "on leave"... On any given day, it seems as much as I can manage (sometimes more) to get the dishes and the laundry done. Oh well! The girls and I are planning a trip to Ontario and New Brunswick at the end of July -early August to get away from it all. Smile!?! Click.