1. I manage to get some bureaucratic things done in the afternoon. Then we go for ice-cream and a decaf to our favorite café and run into Jay’s music teacher and her boys again.
2. Playing badminton and tennis with Jay in the evening when the heat is down.
3. At the end of the day I feel bone tired and restless, with too much on my mind. I am grateful another day has come to an end.

1. Finding a parking ticket in the parking ticket machine, waiting for someone (for me!) to use it up for the last 45 minutes. That is really nice.
2. After clearing some things at the bank, I stop at the downtown park and have a sandwich in the shade of the trees, next to a white marble fountain.
3. A chat with Jay’s friend’s mommy. She is pretty cool to handle the kind of job that she has.

1. Jay is so looking forward to her friend sleeping over at our place tonight. She gives me a call to work, reminding me to buy potato chips for snacking in the evening.
2. Shopping for groceries at the mall in the city. It is nice not to run into neighbors and locals every place I go.
3. A walk at 9 p.m. I do some stretching next to the church on the top of the hill and can hear chirping of kids on the other side of the building.

1. A call from Em, attending her 8-day debate seminar. We miss her terribly but I am happy she has taken this challenge, knowing she will learn so much.
2. I pretty much finish reading the book about focus.
3. I take a break from housework, parenting and worrying – and go to cinema on a Sunday afternoon. I get nearly stuck in the traffic on the highway and have to violate traffic rules, without putting anyone in danger though, to make it there on time.

1. On my way back from the gas station I give my friend a call and we have a lemonade in her garden where it’s cool, fresh and most peaceful.
2. Somehow we manage to change Em’s mobile operator through their website at 10 p.m.
3. A breeze of cool air through the window late at night.

1. Em gives me a call from downtown after a school hiking in the blazing sun. I don’t have to think much to take my lunch break, get into the car and give her a lift home.
2. Jay and I spend a lot of time at the book store looking for a gift for Jay’s class teacher, and we both really enjoy going through books and notebooks and all the lovely things they have.
3. As we drive through town we notice a mommy with a pushchair and a small boy walking next to her. It’s Jay’s music teacher with her two boys, one born only 3 weeks ago. So sweet to see them and to talk with them.

Three good things over the last three days:

1. Friday. I am sitting in the car, thinking whether I should make those phone calls today or not at all. I am paralyzed with fear. I ask for a sign. Meanwhile I watch two girls riding one bike. They fall. It’s not a nasty fall but they obviously both hurt their knees. They sit on the ground – and laugh. They check their knees, laugh and then they get up and ride away. And I get my phone and make the calls.
2. Saturday. Digging in my vegetable garden. Tired in the evening but the good feeling about my hard work lingers.
3. Sunday. A rainy day is a perfect day for house cleaning. And napping and reading.

1. Third time this year that we are on our way to the Maribor hospital for a Jay’s check-up, and this time I take the right exit and we don’t miss the appointment.
2. Em’s exam at the music school goes well. Jay and Em return to the car smiling.
3. Picking blueberries while hiking.

1. I sign the contract. I feel empty. Sad. Lost. Homeless. I sit in the car and think to myself that I needn’t own the house to be able to take it with me any place and any time I wish to. It will always be a part of me.
2. I decide to do something nice for myself and drive to the spa resort to get a date for my therapies which I have been postponing for weeks.
3. Em’s relieved. Last test today. At 11 p.m. she gets an e-mail from her teacher – it’s an A. I am very happy and very proud of her. She has finished this school year most successfully.

1. I take some time to myself at an empty office to re-check the papers. Then I send the e-mail. There is no turning back now.
2. Jay reads her play out loud to me and I am amazed by her writing.
3. A pile of clean dishes and two loads of laundry pegged out at 11 p.m.

1. Finishing my morning exercise. As trivial as this may seem, it is a good thing.
2. A wonderful sight of Jay dancing with her hip-hop group at the end-of-school-year production.
3. I watch my mind trying to get out of it, looking for whatever distraction possible. It takes a long while before I get down to reading my mail and checking the new draft, but eventually I do it.

1. The crust on the grill-cheese slices.
2. We wanted to take our bikes to go cycling, but it starts raining. We look for the old tae-bo tape and do our exercise indoors instead. Jay laughs a lot and we have a  great time.
3. I am happy I have brought a book along so I don’t sit idly in the car while waiting for Jay.

1. At lunchtime I dash to the library then stop at the café nearby to have a decaf with a great view of the green on the other side of the river.
2. I ponder what to with this new information that I got a hold of. And then I do nothing and it feels good. They have done enough bad to me and I don’t have to respond to win.
3. Things I thought I had completed keep popping up. I force myself to check every single line all over again and send it out before midnight.

1. A good start of the day. As I wake Em I tell her she shouldn’t freak out but someone has cleaned her room overnight (of course, it was her doing before sleep), and that makes her smile even before she opens her eyes.
2. A call from a friend from the office just to ask me how I have been doing. I think that is most thoughtful and it brings tears to my eyes.
3. I usually only read one chapter to Jay at bedtime. But the story is so intriguing I go on and read one more.