I didn't want to do anything today.  I was awake at 6am, and delighted to discover I'd gotten 6 straight hours of sleep.  But I was still SO tired.  There was no point in trying to go back to sleep since the girls would be up before long.  So I decided I'd just exist today.  Then our friends came over.  I admit I wasn't super sociable.  I feel bad for that, but really I am just only sort of here.  So while the kids played I did laundry.  And I did laundry.  And I picked up the living room a bit.  And I did laundry.  When they left I swept my bathroom and put the now clean bath mats back in it.  Then I gathered the last two months of bathroom trash, discovering that the overflowing trashcan had something molding at the bottom.  So I washed it and the other little trash can.  Today is sunny so they're outside drying.  I then finally took the dog outside.  Now I'm sitting down again.  Ava is napping.  Maddie is drawing or playing dollhouse (switching back and forth between the two).  Dempsea keeps barking to come in, but it's plenty warm outside so he can stay there.
I'm very dissatisfied with the arrangement of the living room again.  I'm not quite sure how to fix it though.  It's too messy to do any rearranging at this time.  I have this dream of having half the room a play area and the other have a really nice living room.  The trouble with that is it leaves me without a crafting space.  I'd really like to build a playhouse in the corner.  Ah, dreams.  My other dream is to get an Expedit bookcase from Ikea (okay in truth I'd prefer the markor version, but they seem to have been discontinued). and use it to organize my craft stuff (in the same corner that the dream playhouse goes).

I'm actually grateful for December and the money we did not have that month.  It really helped us realize how poor we are.  It could be worse, but for the last five years, this is the least amount of money we've had to live on it seems.  It is a learning experience.  A difficult one, but good at the same time.  I had more to say on this subject but Glee has distracted me.  Even though the zombie make-up makes me cringe.