wild party

Lily and I are having a wild party, having the house to ourselves. We played Candyland the DVD version, had home-made gluten-free strawberry milkshakes, danced to really loud music, and giggled uncontrollably. She has been so sweet. We should get rid of the family more often. There is so much less work and Lily is so much easier. I think she likes having me all to herself.

Today we are going to buy fresh salmon and spinach for lunch and a new Japanese puzzle.

At home Mandy can barely tolerate being in the same room with me, now that she is away, she misses me terribly. That girl is too smart. The other day I was showing her how to code in html because she had to do a web page for a school project. Instead of showing her how to make the page in a program and then export it to the web I showed her how to hand code the site, because I am a nerd. There I was explaining this and that while she watched me type it in to the computer. There she was sitting behind me pointing out my mistakes. She picked up pretty much everything from my semester long class and 800 page text book in about an hour. I always have to look up things to remember the exact words or whatever, not Mandy-once something enters her brain it stays. Convienent when she wants to tell me all the things I have ever said to her in her entire life and for remembering html code. Even with her amazing abilities she thinks it is boring. What isn't boring? I worry that she doesn't have direction. But, here I am at 37 still without direction, I guess it isn't something that is life or death. I would hate to see her make all the mistakes I made. It sure would be lovely if she could do college right out of high school and if she could find her path soon and be working toward her goals. It would be nice if at about 25, if she had a degree, work experience, and was on a path toward a good life. Wouldn't it be nice to start adulthood, with all your ducks in a row? Or is it wrong for me to take away her opportunity to struggle?

Back to my wild party with Lily.