rose: i'm making some serious progress with my handcraft! i had hit a lull for a little while there. partly because i was frustrated that it was 3 steps forward, 2 steps back the whole way. but i'm finally in a groove, and feel like i'm rounding a bed and heading towards completing it. which is good, because i need to start on a new handcraft for my niece's birthday present, who is turning 6 in one month. also, i love all the strong female leads on game of thrones this season. they are really dominating!

thorn: i took the fellas to a kids program today to get us out of the house, only to be turned away because otis wasn't old enough. it was pouring rain, and we needed to do something to keep us busy, so i was pretty upset. i hadn't planned on him participating, but they wouldn't even let him be there. thankfully, they did let us into another group at the same location, which is normally french but there weren't other kids there so we got to play and participate without it being an issue. eamon is still keen to go to the other group sometime, and asked me if i could sometime leave otis with daddy and just take him. also, dealing with eamon flare-ups caused by disappointment is tough.