Quick Takes Friday

  
*Stamping project under #7 if you are just here for the creative mojo. 
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 Seven weeks postpartum and my wedding ring fits again!  This is the the soonest it has fit of all my babes.  (I actually have a cheapie wedding ring that is a size bigger that I wear while pregnant/postpartum; it is nice to get my own back on after all this time!)
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In an attempt to keep Boo occupied the other day while I was doing something in the kitchen, I gave him a tupperware bowl with some dry kidney beans and a spoon, thinking he might do some his usual "fill and spill" action.  Nope.  The kid ate them.  I'm still waiting for the diaper fall out.
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Miss Birdie is getting baptized/christmated tomorrow, so the parental units are descending this afternoon.  So. Excited.  They are staying the whole weekend plus Monday and part of Tuesday as well.  Yippie for grandparents!!
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I pulled my 35mm Nikon N-64 out of the closet this week and have had so much fun taking pictures of the kids and experimenting with settings.  I've not developed the rolls yet, so maybe everything will be a blurry disaster, but it is a good camera, and I only stopped using it because it is bulky and hard to tote around.  (Plus the whole film developing thing was getting tricky)
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Target.com is driving me crazy. I ordered something from the site, and it didn't work, so I wanted to send it back by prepaid postage since we don't drive much in the city and the nearest Target isn't, well, near, and it is hard to get out with the two littles right now. So I follow all the prompts, and get to the label, and the image doesn't work for printing. I call Target, spend 30 minutes on hold (what is up with that?), only to be told I really should just return it to the store. When I explain that I don't drive much and it would be a burden to me, she puts me on hold for the "second tier customer service," where I wait on hold another 20 minutes before giving up. This must be the corporate strategy--tell people they can return online items for free, and then make it impossible to do so, forcing them to do what you wanted in the first place, which is, return to the store, using up valuable oil/gas resources. Brilliant. I think I'll be shopping online elsewhere in the future. (But not really; sometimes you just can't beat Target's prices/selection, especially on kid's clothing)

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  We all got flu shots this week (except Birdie, who is too little), and against my better judgement, I got one too.  And got the flu, just like I always do when I get the shot.  That turned into a breast infection.  Yay for flu shots.
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My son's namesday was on Tuesday.  He was super excited about it, so to celebrate, I made from-scratch brownies for his preschool class, only to be told they will only serve commercially prepared prepackaged items.  Gah.  But I did make him a really cool gift!  I had this in mind the moment I saw the I Dig You! stamp set in the big catalog and just now got around to making it.    

A magnet digger puzzle! Cool, eh? Just the thing for a construction-vehicle obsessed 3 year old. I stamped the images on Whisper White, added the brads, and then adhered to one of our magnet sheets. I used paper snips to cut everything out, and then sanded the edges a bit to make them look better. If I do this again, I think I might use an exacto knife to cut out because the edges weren't quite as clean as I'd wanted. But he's three, and doesn't notice that sort of thing.

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