So the kids are with Dane for the night. Way too quiet around here, but I'm hoping to get a lot of work done. This morning I performed some major surgery on my vacuum cleaner and Polly and I gave it a whirl around the house, so it's nice to be working from a pretty clean environment for a change. She's so funny. She's been bugging me for days to fix it up so she could vacuum, and she's just discovered the wonders of the DustBuster. I may not let her go to Kindergarten next year after all...

Actually, what's weirder than that is she's on this new kick about napkin rings. She saw on TV how to make a napkin ring out of a cut-up roll of toilet paper and some wrapping paper. Now she wants to be able to make some nice bowls and things so she can use the napkin ring and throw a fancy party. When Dane's grandmother passed away it was bizarre to me that for all the fascinating things a person could say about her they mentioned how much she loved setting the table. To me that would be like being complimented on how I fold laundry or something, but apparently Polly gets it. She's so much like Dane's family it's eerie.

As for Romy, she's so excited about school starting on Tuesday. She keeps asking me what day it is like she thinks I'm going to forget to take her or something. Also she's been spending a lot of time on her new website. It's all about pets and can be found at romy'spetzoo.com. Not much there yet, but she's been gathering pictures and jokes, and drawing pictures (like the one above) to post for the world to see. Should be a fun thing to distract her from Pokemons and video games for a few minutes a day.

And me, I'm going to try to get some work done and try to not notice the overwhelming silence around me. Yuck. It's funny how I wish for a few minutes to myself but feel so uncomfortable when I finally get it. So ironical. :)