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Forced Air


 
It does not take long for us to ramp up to senseless busyness after the holidays.  We went from an intense work week, into a day of intense socializing on Saturday.  In between the spurts of lurching madness, there were sweet periods of decompression.  The first period of unravelling happens right after we pick up our daughter after school on Friday.  For a few hours, she gets busy stripping away the layers of all that is expected of her all week by going into another world of her own making. This week, she wanted to help me with the laundry and then took it upon herself to hang it up on the folding rack.  She had a number of projects on the go...
We had another good stretch of unaccounted for time on Sunday.


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