permission to rest

 we all took turns napping today. mr smear had quite a bit of downtime and occupied himself nicely. in the afternoon we took a leisurely walk to get ice cream and let mr smear play in a park.

on the way home, mr smear was harassing me to buy furniture mods for minecraft - that's a no - and i offered him an alternative that a) really excited him and b) might help us get through the next two months with only mild loss of sanity: i won't buy him mods, but i will support him and help him to make his own.

we have installed blockbench, and we'll see how this little experiment goes.

we had a lovely evening, which helped reduce my anxiety about the upcoming work week and our meeting tomorrow with the school guidance councilor.

one foot in front of the other. i'm really glad i gave myself permission to rest today.

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one thing that i *did* do - i started looking at the next page's script for the graphic novel, and i came up with something very exciting for the next two pages! additionally, i've decided that i'm going to shrink the scope of the first issue down to the mythology and the first sonnet, so i've laid out the remaining pages for the illustrator and i'm feeling good about having a good reading experience within our grasp ^_^