06.15 – 06.21

Life The cat continues to shit in the kids’ room. Hard to tell if this is a protest, or if its litter box isn’t big enough and/or if it’s a bit thick. Maybe a bit of all three. The low point of the week was the builder laying the bathroom floor tiles without checking with us how we wanted them. I don’t think me or Σσ thought we had an opinion until we saw how they’d been laid when it became clear our opinion was ‘not that’. I thought I’d saved the day when I pulled a row of them up so that they could be offset, but it transpired Σσ and I were also at cross purposes and for a few hours the situation shook the very bedrock of our relationship. Ultimately we have accepted that it’s good enough and the primary reason we were so hung up on it is likely because it is the only thing in the bathroom that was ‘done’. I’m hoping we’ll largely not notice the bathroom floor once everything else is ready. Decisions about the brand and shade of paint continue to require more mental energy than…