Digging

I'm trying to dig myself out of the hole I seem to be in.  July weather yesterday and probably more today....91 and humid....fried the freaking peonies.  For whatever reason I came home from work in a foul mood and instantly everyone in my family irritated me intensely.  Huh.  Perhaps my mood had something to do with it?  Well, YEAH....but there were legitimate reason for irritation nonetheless.  We got homework done, children fed and headed off to Leo's award ceremony.  He grumbled about it until I yelled, "Yes, I KNOW it's just a piece of paper but the piece of paper represents the way some people FEEL about you, OKAY?"  My sweet pea's a good guy despite himself so he did his thing, trotted up on stage and shook hands with everybody.  They took his picture....Ernie asked him if he smiled.  Leo didn't even roll his eyes, he just said drily, "uh, I don't remember."  The last time he had his picture taken at an award ceremony it looked like quite the mugshot.  I think he was rather pleased by the whole thing although he would never admit it.  We don't have photographic documentation for reasons I won't go into.

I woke up this morning grumpy.  I looked at the wall across from my bed and wanted to throw something at it.  Perhaps Phil Lee should teach me to throw knives.  I feel like we're midway through a million things and nothing is finished....and we're just floating in a messy, messy sea.

On a good note the Auditor General of the State of Illinois is going to conduct an audit on how the insurance decisions for the state were made.  Of course July is coming up awfully quickly.....we'll see what's happening although I do feel a tiny bit more hopeful.....

And Ernie planted a lot of my seeds yesterday.

And our strawberry roots are up and growing in their new bed.

I'll keep digging.