(Originally posted August 23, 2009)

We'll wake up at 5:15 a.m., and I won't automatically get the first shower. J.J. and Leah will have to leave the house by 6:00. I'll be driving Eli to the bus stop and Zeke (the cat) will have to be closed up in the laundry room so he doesn't claw the furniture like he tends to do when no one is home.

Because no one will be home.

Because six months and nine days after the date that I will never, ever forget, J.J. will be returning to work tomorrow.