Home Alone

Mom left on Saturday, and I've just dispatched my sister and company to the airport, so it's just me once again. I swear, the house almost seems too quiet, although the neighbors' children are doing their best to take up the slack by making lots of noise outside.

Overall, it was a cool visit. Yesterday we drove around New Mexican back roads and visited some old ruined Spanish Missions, then stopped for dinner at the Olive Garden in Albuquerque. Yesterday was board games and DVDs again, and the three-year-old had what seems to have been the most exciting experience of his young life watching a bulldozer spreading fresh dirt over my driveway to fix the nasty mudhole that was left of it after the most recent batch of storms.

And now, of course, I have a TV show to watch. If you'll excuse me...