Knight of Pentacles

 My Husband made his triumphant return yesterday!  YESSSS!!! It's good to know that I can do things without him, but dammit, I missed having him around.  Besides being my best friend, and a great dad, he's also a hell of a cook, and I am not. So, life should get back to "normal".  I managed to make it out to the gym today and went for a run, did a bunch of work on my kung fu.  I'll be back at the Kwoon this week, with bells on. Song of the day: Bennie and the Jets by Elton John (Fun Fact: I once re-wrote the lyrics to Bennie and the Jets for Benjamin and got everyone to sing it to him for his birthday.  He cried) https://open.spotify.com/track/5Wj1rJnCLpMHdLaxsFtJLs?si=6b3364af6b774a8f

 So, I have an idea for the lack of blog posts.  But, I need a consensus from the TEAM.  Because as a team, we should be able to keep ourselves accountable, rather than relying on a parent figure. After Sifu Brinker's talk with us last Thursday, I made a spreadsheet with the entire teams blog entries for the (lunar) year so far. It paints a pretty clear picture or who is ahead, who is behind, and who is just about grazing the almost minimum for blog post.  My proposal is, we make this spreadsheet public.  It would be an easy, visual way for all of us to see how we're keeping pace with the bare minimum of this requirement. I know that not everyone is motivated by numbers, but at the very least, this is a way for us to measure how we are living up to this, obviously rather important metric. I also recognize that there could be many points of view that I had not considered.  Which is why I'm opening it up for debate. So, what do you guys think? Song of the day...

 I've had a rough week.  Actually, first, I'd like to amend something I said during the meeting at the beginning of the month.  I said that my daughter can be difficult.  That was wrong of me to say, especially as her mother. Frankie is not difficult, she is very vocal about what she does and doesn't want to do.  It's very difficult to get her to do something when she doesn't want to, especially when you can't think of a logical reason why she needs to do it.  She stands her ground when she knows she's right, and I'm trying to respect and encourage that, while also trying to maintain my own sanity. These last 2 weeks while Ben has been gone have been tough on both of us, and she's wanted to spend as much time as she can glomped on to me.  I'm an introvert, and need time by myself to recharge, so I'm finding it really hard and it's been wearing down my mental health. We have had good moments and bad moments, and this has been an educationa...