Surfacing

I 'd like to tell you that I've been in the Bahamas where, according to the 12-year old, everyone went but she for winter break, but no, I've been slogging through the week with another sinus infection. I'm on my second round of antibiotics. I've decided that today I just have to spend the day in the house, trying to replenish my energy.

All the kids are home this weekend. Chris went up to Jess's college for a few days and they came home together. The youngest went to the Hamptons for a long weekend with her aunt. Above is a photo of her lounging around with her new skateboard helmet.

Since everyone was home, I made a Big Family Dinner of chicken cutlets, roasted potatoes, carrots, and asparagus, and we had a family dinner, but the time 8:00 came, I was exhausted and went to bed at 9:30!

When I'm low energy, I read voraciously instead of trying to create anything. I picked up Revenge of the Middle Aged Woman on Friday night and finished it last night. It's a fun, nicely written , quick read in the my-husbnd-left-me-now-my-life-sucks-no-wait-I-lose-weight-and-an-old-love-comes-back-and-
so-does-my-husband-whose-young-mistress-is-driving-him-crazy genre. Fun.

Yesterday, Stan and I did our tour of the shoreline. The ice is breaking up in the marina and is almost gone on the larger beaches. It was in the 50's and many people were walking around the park - okay two people were walking around. But signs of Spring were in the air and my spirits lifted. Go to Wave Fitzsimmon's website to check in with people from around the country as they report in on signs of Spring in their areas.

I'm going off to write on the novel today. I have a new chapter in my head and I have to get it down on paper. I bought a big, fat orange Rhodia lined notebook to use to organize the chapters of this novel. I have about 8 chapters and they are on diskettes and in a jumble. So I am back to pen and paper for keeping track of where this novel is going. (It also allows me to buy new notebooks and journals, like I need an excuse!)