Coming together

Now Day 10 of Month 2, this year finally feels as though it is coming together. The children are at school and the husband at work. The ironing is (sort of) up to date and the dinner exists in my mind (if not in the kitchen at present). My work is starting to regulate after the stop-start of January, the insane heat of early February, the rush of suddenly urgent tasks that ought to have been done last month, the clients' general malaise throughout summer and their apparent reticence to pay invoices...

I'm working today, don't feel like I'm running against a giant, invisible clock, don't have a gnawing sense that there is something I've missed. I'm breathing out and settling in. 2011 is coming together. Prepositions abound.