The lingering high desert winter has been dogging our little family. Monotonous sunless skies and a relentless bitter chill have worn us all down. I never really felt the gloom of seasonal affective disorder until these last few weeks. I’ve still been kind to myself and the kids, it just feels like I’ve been dragging around twenty pounds of knotted rope everywhere. Tadg has been down as well. A wrist injury made gaming hard. Lunches sucked. School will never end.