I've gone from dithering to floundering... is that a step forward or back? 

My kids are driving my crazy... I'm seeing more of the principal's office now than I ever did as a kid. I'm ready to string up a 5th grader and a 10th grader, both for being morons. Another 4-day weekend with the kids starts tomorrow, and I didn't get any recovery time last weekend because I spent the whole weekend running hither and yon. So I spent most of Monday sleeping. On top of my kids, I'm now running a neighbor kid to school in the morning because dad sold mom's car out from under her and hasn't found her a new one. And I'm watching one of my 5th-grader's friends before and after school. Which both pay, but only minimally because I know how much money they don't make (not the place for a 'raise the minimum wage' rant).

My house is driving me crazy... The projects that I'd intended to do the last 4-day weekend still aren't done. And I've got to somehow motivate above-mentioned 10th grader into cleaning his bedroom because it's becoming a health hazard. And some of the projects that have linguished for years are starting to ride my nerves.

And other stuff is piling up...

Which all boils down to I haven't written or edited anything in almost two weeks. 

Granted... I spent hours yesterday mentally re-working the logic of the 1st and 2nd scenes in the 2nd chapter, and the entire day before re-working all the motivations for the bad guy, which now explains tons of stuff and I can yank bunches of now unnecessary verbage. So it's not like I haven't thought about it. And I feel like I'm getting close to having enough of the plot re-worked that I can start on the edit... but Jeez! I'd really like to have it done! 

And if you can't tell, I really hate the letting-the-dough-rise phase of writing... too bad I do so much of it.