I spent last weekend at a writing conference (more on that later) and had a wonderful time.  The baby came with me, and the three big kids stayed with Daddy and had an amazing weekend-- a day with Papa & Grandma, hiking at the lake, seeing Les Miserables (the schools version with a youth cast), swimming...

I came home Sunday night and worked late on Monday at the clinic.  Tuesday, I got up and tried to put the house back together.  My husband is great about getting the essentials done, but the piles of paper and laundry and misplaced toys had accumulated.  Plus, we'd started with an underlying state of entropy before my trip.  I was so overwhelmed by it that I couldn't even figure out where to start.  So I snapped a few photos to share with y'all.

This here's the laundry room.  Two minutes before I took this picture, there was a pail of dirty diapers on top of the washer.  (Now they're inside.)  Yes, that's a pinata over there.  It fell down from M's ceiling through no fault of its own.

This is the corner of the kitchen where our computer lives.  My husband loves flat surfaces and covers them with paper.  (This was the disadvantage of making the kitchen-corner the "study."  At least before, we could close the door on the rising tide of paper chaos.

This is my room, with O's running banner there somewhere between "started" and "done."  M's hadn't been started... and by the time I got to it, I had lost the letters and had to re-cut them.

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