Joe has actually been catching up the slack as necessary. Today he chased kids and did laundry. I cleaned the kitchen, did hand wash only dishes, helped with laundry, and cooked a surprisingly involved dinner (took 90 minutes to assemble a tuna noodle cassarole. Mostly because I have to make the cream of fungus soup from scratch.) My mom will catch some slack too as needed.

Can't afford a house cleaner. As lovely as it sounds.

Not that I'll turn down some help from pony for the heavy work. We have rooms to swap around. Lots of lifting involved.