preach!

Today I started the third book during my break from school:

3. Her - Harriet Lane

2. The Grownup - Gillian Flynn

1. The Power of the Dog - Don Winslow

Sharing because this paragraphed just screamed at me and had me yelling, "PREACH!" to myself, especially after my post about wanting to prepare better snacks for the girls:

"I never realized how much mess is involved with living," I say, with a little laugh, giving Chrisopher a matchbox of raisins and lifting him out of the chair. "You know: just making him a meal is the act with a thousand consequences: all the peeling and cooking and cooling down and cutting, and then afterwards all the scraping and rinsing and wiping and sweeping. One stone, all these bloody ripples. Just the act of tidying up the chaos seems to generate more chaos. I open the cupboard to get out the mop, and when my back is turned he scatters clothes pegs all over the house, or hides the Hoover attachments in the recycling box. Or I find him wandering around clutching the bottle of bleach."

And tomorrow Kennedy has school again.

Leia