I turned in the final final final draft last Thursday. I haven't posted here sooner because I'm still coming back down to earth. I am slowly beginning to feel so much lighter. The book is so much tighter now but still with the post-structural elements that I like to use in my fiction.

We've had another houseguest. This time Lucia, the kids's longtime nanny has been here this weekend. There is no way that I would have survived raising the kids when they were babies after the breakup without her. We have a great relationship. We love each other but bicker and tease like brother and sister or the way that I would love to be with my ex. In fact Lucia's friends all call me her ex-husband.

We immediately fell into our old patterns of her taking care of us all. It has been wonderful. I was in my office cleaning up after the months of disarray while I was rewriting when she came in with farfalle pasta with tuna for lunch. I almost wept. I can't tell you how much I like being taken care of. I haven't had that in so very long. She leaves tomorrow morning, though. Then I'll be back to my duties as mommy/daddy/prof/handyman/pediatrician...