When dad goes away...

the most random things happen! A few days ago Madeleine managed to step on a small piece of glass with her bare foot and I had to play surgeon without anyone to help me distract her. The first realtor other than ours has called and wants to show the house to clients today. And the power went out at 4:00am today and came back on around 8am. Fortunately I had found the flashlight a few days ago and knew where it was when the power went out. And thank God for batteries because Madeleine's crib aquarium runs on them and that helped her fall back asleep after her fan kept turning on and off during the three flickers of power before it went out. I don't think I'll be too keen on Justin going away for any more long stretches of time, especially since I can't find much in the wreckage of our storage boxes in the basement. But we've survived (albeit I'm a little sleepy this morning) and that's the important thing.