No rain today

Nope. None. After being surrounded for several hours by wonderful storms, we stayed totally dry. Oh, well.

I sent out the magazines today. It took longer than I'd anticipated - over 20 hours' worth of work - folding, stapling, organizing, labeling, stamping.... My palms are bruised from pressing down on the saddle stapler again and again. By the end, I was putting both hands on the stapler and pushing down on top of them with my forehead; my hands hurt to much to press down that hard on their own. But, I finally finished. It's such a relief to have them out the door and on their way. It's a wonderful issue, and I'm proud of it, but assembling it always takes so much out of me. I've decided that I'll have the printers do the next issue in its entirety (instead of only the covers) and assemble it. Yes, it will cost more, but not as much as I'd feared. It's just that it's become a little overwhelming for me to do on my own (not that that's a bad thing, necessarily). The house always falls apart, cleaning-wise, only adding to the stress-level, and Kenzie gets shortchanged.

He was happy to have his mother back today. We played indoor tennis (with paddles and a Nerf-like (but harder) ball) for quite a while this evening. I think he's been craving our time alone together. Over the past few days, I haven't been as available as usual. And when I was, I was kinda stressed, truthfully. He's done his best, finding things to play on his own, reading, marking the movies to watch, and trying to keep himself entertained because he knows I'm swamped, but, I'm really, really looking forward to having the printers do the bulk of it next time.

I treated myself to a nice dinner tonight in celebration of finishing Live Free Learn Free's first year of publication. Farmer's cheese and whole wheat crackers, rainier cherries, white wine, and thin Swedish ginger snaps. Mmmm....