Pondering

This is the first Friday night in forever that I haven't had one or both of the boys here with me.

Not the best day. I boil-washed a tablet today. Of the electronic variety. Which Charlie had borrowed from his Dad and hidden in his bed. That's a slight exaggeration: I washed a tablet at 60°C on an eco-wash setting which my clever washing machine says is equivalent to a 90°C wash.

Then I reminded myself that four years ago, to the month, I'd just started on this grand adventure. Four years ago there was no iPad in reserve to replace the broken tablet. Four years ago I was hand washing sheets (and everything else) in the bath tub. Four years ago I couldn't even afford a dish rack. I'm not quite sure why the dish rack sticks in my memory, but it does. I've surmounted a lot in those four years. In four weeks a boil-washed tablet won't even make the top 50 of stuff I'll remember having overcome.

And I have Merlot. And courgette cake. And chums.

And the washing machine still works.

I'm sorted.