flowmom, count your blessings and consider yourself lucky. Maybe you should just feel fortunate that you're not related to these people to whom I happen to be related.
I'm sooo happy to be home. It's been so nice and quiet here. No one has commanded me to sit and stay, deliberately insulted me, made me visibly demonstrate an expression of incredulity, or doubted my credibility about how I got a couple blisters. It's been a delightfully peaceful evening. Just the kind an only child would want. How I love my solitude. On a side note, I hope that one day H understands how an only child loves his/her solitude. He and his brother, two years apart, were all over each other all the time. He doesn't understand wanting time alone. Maybe one day he'll see I'm not completely crazy . . .
