Hmmmm...No Full Moon

I was sure there had to be a full moon all week...but there's not, is there?

This week has been a little crazy, and I'll keep this post short because I slept in till 5:30 this morning due to events that happened during the night.

Around midnight, I hear the front door open and two voices--one of them is my daughter. A few minutes later, I hear the front door close again...and my daughter sobbing.

When my daughter cries, everyone knows it. She flat-out sobs like she wants the world to cover their ears. When I cry, you usually won't know it unless I look you in the eye, which is not too often.

Anyway, the sobbing echoes throughout the house, and seems to linger right outside my bedroom door. I think she wanted to make sure I heard her. So, I called out, "Why are you crying? What's wrong?"

And she walked in, sobbing her head off, and plunked down on the foot of my bed.

Aidan: (Sobbing)

Me: What's wrong?

Aidan: I...I...I just gave Webby AWAY!

Me: Awww, it'll be okay. We have to find homes for them. We just can't keep them.

Aidan: (amazingly, sobbing even louder) I know, I understand that. I'm just sad cause Webby doesn't know what's happening, and she might be scared, and Trina and Trick Daddy and Trappy and Boosie won't know what happened to their sister and they might be confused...

Me: (finally understanding why she was sad--I'd thought it was because she would miss Webby) Oh...well, we know she's going to a good home, right? She's going to be okay. Remember, you brought home Trappy when she was super tiny, too, and she was happy right from the start.

Aidan: I...(sob, sob) know... it's just hard...

I gave her a hug and she went upstairs to her room, the sobbing halted...until the next kitten leaves today...

But she continued to text me for the next couple hours about how she's not able to help around the house lately because she's working 50-60 hours a week.

This is one of those times I don't know what to say. I think she should help out around the house more, or maybe contribute some rent money since she's working so much. I have to move by July 1st, because the landlord is increasing the rent by $200 a month, and I can't justify three people living in this giant house for such a huge amount of money.

The landlord also wants to start showing the house by the end of next week, which means a ton of organizing and hauling stuff to Goodwill has to happen this weekend and next weekend. We have one bedroom stacked two feet high with my mom's clothes and other stuff. It's going to be a LOT of work to clear things out.

But, when the going gets tough, the tough get tougher and make things happen. So, that's what I'm gonna do. With a smile.

I am finding just a little time (bath time, to be exact) to read over Forrest's vignette's on Dal's and take some notes. Looking at the whole picture, some things REALLY stick out, and not just a needle in a lump of mud. I'll post some interesting connections, like the thread that connects the omniscient guru and the man up the stair, at some point.

My next goal will be to read through some of the SB's (I believe very few of them are useful), and do the same thing as I've done with the vignettes.

And I just received a fresh copy of the book, so I'll be reading that again for the 94894th time, too. But just during bath time, cause otherwise, I have a house to pack up, fix up, and move out of.