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I'm going to post pictures of the cleaned and pretty house that's now on the market. I want to write about how I left Friend and sobbed for about an hour afterward. I miss her still - an nagging pain that reminds me that I lost the presence of someone beautiful and brilliant and the most wonderful woman I could have wished for as a favorite friend. I do not like this part - it hurts. And I will write about it when I have time and quiet tomorrow.

I arrived home last night to hugs and complaints. The computer didn't work, the bathroom needed to be decorated, the girls needed to be visited this morning.

"I fixed it," I finally announced after randomly clicking the same buttons over and over. I gave power to the modem and router and computer. I restarted and clicked and frowned. My laptop connected first and about 30 minutes later, my parents' desktop followed suit.

"How'd you do it?" Dad asked.

"No idea," I replied. It had been a long day - full of emotional turmoil and lots of driving and a very tired Katie.

We saw the girls this morning before they flitted off to go camping. Little One is bossier than I remember, apparently reaching for age 4 with strong opinions about most everything. Brother, by the way, has moved back in. The entire Brother family was headed to the lake and things appeared, well, relatively calm. We'll see how it goes.

Smallest One is the darling of the day. She crawls without lifting her belly, squirming quickly across the floor toward anything that caught her attention. She smiled and babbled and played with my face while I cuddled her.

We went shopping, picking out paint and bathroom decorations. The latter is finally finished (nearly) and looks lovely. Chienne and I are terribly sleepy. I'm starting with a cold. But always forward moving, yes?

More tomorrow.