Mom is basically recovered from having Alice. I can tell because Mom has been a bubbling hive of activity over the last week or so. She painted the boy’s room, converting the ceiling from pale orange to white and the walls from off white to solar yellow. She painted Alice’s room for good measure, getting in two coats there (it’s now solar yellow as well). She installed mini book racks next to the boy’s beds and a magazine rack on the wall at the head of their beds. She even made me take a pass at cleaning my office. (It’s kind of astounding that we took out like 10-12 boxes of stuff and there’s still things all over the floor).