June 14, 2025 - Saturday



I woke up to several texts from Ben, spiraling into panic because he couldn't fall asleep at Patrick's and then devolving into him just abruptly leaving to drive back home. I'm glad to have him come home, but I feel really sad that he made that whole drive for nothing. I'm also sure he'll get some backlash from siblings who will feel like he's overreacting and will be frustrated with him. He ended up getting home around noon today.

In the meantime, the kids and I walked around the neighborhood yard sailing today! We found lots of junk to take home. It's so hard to not buy things! I got a big, oval mirror for the girls' room. I'm going to sand and paint it to match the hall closet. Each of the kids got a few things. Most notable were Jonas's picks though: 100% camel hair tan trench coat from the 50's and a handmade unicorn, stained glass window. :)

Once we got back from a couple of hours of wandering around checking out yard sales, we headed to the movies to see the new Lilo & Stitch. It was actually really good! All of us enjoyed it a lot. I got a little frustrated because of how many bathroom, butter, and popcorn refill trips I had to take. And then we headed to Target to finish up Father's Day shopping, which was actually pretty fun! 

Sadly, Ben being home was a bit of a dark cloud over everything because he was still pretty far gone on his panicked spiral of feeling like he'd never be able to sleep again. But we had a great beginning of the day! 

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