Grace and her notes

As I've mentioned before, Grace sometimes uses notes to express her feelings, and then flies them downstairs to me. Frequently she writes notes when she's angry, but it looks like she's starting to use them for less emotionally charged communications, too.

On Monday Grace was upstairs showering, and I was exercising, so I couldn't hear her. Peter was watching the Duke women lose to Tennessee, but I periodically had him check on G. Finally he came down and said she wasn't planning on coming down for kisses, and I could wait till I was done exercising to go up and tuck her in. So, about 10 or 15 minutes later I went up to tuck her, and she was fast asleep. Not too unusual, but usually if she knows I'm coming up she'll stay awake so she can tell me good night.

Today has been a rough day so far, and is probably going to get rougher (more on that later), but suffice it to say that I found myself at home with Peter around 2:00 pm. As I was walking through the entry way, I noticed a piece of paper on the floor, with Grace's handwriting on it, so I picked it up.

"Goodnight" and a smiley face!