first day

yesterday i said, "why don't you lick Super Why with the puppet", to zoey, in a desperate attempt to get some personal space. today i talked about "localizing assets to their language and making a file for supporting documents and guidelines". both conversations felt normal, but the later was from a deep part of my brain that got left behind 3 years ago.
yesterday i woke up to the girl wanting to leave our bedroom to "eat dinner" at 6am, as usual. after i gave in to her screams of "i don't want to change my diaper change!!!!", she ran and i stumbled to the kitchen where our daily what-for-breakfast decision ensued. toas with "JUST HONEY!" was decided upon after viewing of fridge contents, discussion of letting cold air out which results in rotten food, and explaining that we don't east JUST VEGANAISE for breakfast. then there was much talk about eating over the plate, drinking milk or juice, keeping cup away from elbows, who eats which vitamins, and not rubbing hair out of the face with honey covered hands. somewhere in there i ate cereal and cleaned up (a little). then onto the argument of getting dressed to leave the house which lasts twice as long as the breakfast event, and includes numerous requests for tv watching and story reading, and the running of the cats and zoey from each other.
today, we had to squeeze this into an hour. this is the difference between me working, and me not working.
thankfully, she LOVES school and even took a nap! i am enjoying reviving my brain from its long, lovely trip. i look forward to getting a computer so i can do something more useful than write stories of our first day. although, i'm glad to have it in the blog bank.