The boys are up and moving. Everyone's mostly cooperative and I'm very grateful for that. I've been having bad dreams lately and my sleep is not restful, so I appreciate things being a bit easier this morning. My plan is to work around the house today. I really want to get the hallway leading to the basement gutted and cleaned up. It would make getting to and from the basement so much easier. Everything I can do to streamline our lives is a positive thing at this point. I have a meeting this afternoon and I'm not even almost slightly looking forward to it. It's a necessary evil but one I wish wasn't needed. Assuming I survive the meeting and I will, I'll pickup the kids and head home for…

I had a less than stellar day yesterday and I found myself overwhelmed and frustrated for much of it. While I'm pouring everything I have into the kids, it's very difficult not to focus on dissolution of my marriage because it plays such a role in much of what we're experiencing at the moment. To the best of my knowledge, while I was ademently against the spilt, it will ultimately be amicable and there will be no ugliness over anything. As much as this hurts, at least it isn't ugly. That doesn't make it easy but it makes things easier on everyone, especially the kids, and that matters. The kids are sorta all over the place on this and it's very confusing for them. One minute they're fine and the…