It’s amazing how much my mood affects my kids’s moods. Yesterday I got upset when I tripped over one of Isaac’s toys for the millionth time (a classic dad move). So I went into what I call “Angry Cleaning” mode–most of the time I’m okay with the mess that comes with kids, but sometimes it overwhelms me and I have to clean everything. Unfortunatly, Isaac is brilliant. He learns everything he sees. So when I got upset for a little while and cleaned the snot out of our appartment. He started acting upset too. It was obnoxious. . .he’s my little mirror. So no more “angry cleaning” which is a shame because “angry cleaning” is the most efficient and effective form of cleaning I know . . . I bet “angry cleaning” would be popular with Darth Vader.