11/11/25

Happy Veteran’s Day! Thank you to all the men, women and animals that serve our country! Hero’s! We appreciate you! 

 I took today “off”. Thank goodness. I did pop onto my commuter at various times throughout the day to deal with little fires before they become big fires.

Paul and I enjoyed coffee together. We chatted and put plans together for moving forward with the building. We are consulting our soon to be tenant about the way we should do certain things. It was fun. I was drawing things out for ideas for how things will be placed.

I spent the day doing a deep clean on the house. Ethan’s room was a focus. I know what you are thinking….why are you cleaning your adult son’s bedroom?

Depression is an odd disease/disorder. I think there is a bit of messiness that Ethan was born with. A little bit of a chaotic brain that leads him going from one project to the next. 

Ethan sometimes struggles with cleaning in general as well as tidiness/ organization. Sometimes he has to choose what he spends his energy on (before it runs out) and he chooses anything but cleaning. If his depression doesn’t fatigue him, his kidney does.

I cleaned his room today because it was getting gamey. Yup! There was a funky smell. I wanted the yuck to go away. I wanted it to go away for ME. I didn’t want to smell dirty sheets or see everything out of place. I needed my dishes back. I asked permission first and abided by the rules Ethan gave me. I made a decent dent and I felt good about it.

I made several trips from the basement to the second floor and my legs are feeling it. 

I actually dusted, vacuumed the corners on the ceiling all over the house, straightened things up and LOTS of laundry.

Paul had today off as well and he worked on getting wood ready for the winter. We had our first fire of the season. It was glorious. 

I am not sure who enjoyed it more, myself or the dogs.

I enjoyed my clean house tonight. Everything is smelling fresh. Even Moe (he got a bath). I spent the evening catching up on emails and doing work things so that my day goes smoothly tomorrow.

Thank you to all the Veterans out there for fighting for our freedom!