7 Quick Takes

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We've been enjoying the 12 days of Christmas with lots of desserts and meat and dairy.  Piglet especially has loved the chocolate milk and has frequently requested an extra glass as his dessert instead of my mom's special fudge.  Weird child.  More for us!

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And while we on the topic of dessert, as a special treat one day this week, I put a mini Reese's peanut butter cup into Piglet's lunch box (he normally has an apple and carrots with whatever is the main thing that day).  He came home that day and informed me very seriously that he didn't want any more muffins in his lunch.  I was a little confused until he pointed to the other three Reese's sitting on the table (and I looked in his lunch box to see the Reese's still in there).  "No more muffins in my lunch box, Mama." Alrighty, then.

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We continue to battle illness in this household.  All three kids are sick with colds/respiratory illness.  Birdie is still down for the count with  the bronchiolitis whatever this weird thing is and sounds pretty bad at night.  She has been spending 2 hours or more every night coughing and crying and coughing and crying until she can fall back asleep.  One night this week all three kids were up from 1:30 a.m. to 4:00 a.m.  Shoot me now.

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And just to keep things interesting, my husband and I both traded stomach viruses this week, on top of all the respiratory junk we are sharing around.  Fun times.

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I'm writing today at my other blog about rethinking my closet, in keeping with one of my goals for this year, which is to get my closet under control.  My conclusions may be somewhat unusual, but I think they will suit me to a T.

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I didn't quite make my goal of three cards this week because of the whole stomach flu thing, but I did get two made, one of which was this little beauty.  It didn't photograph very well, but I just love those little birds!  I can't take credit at all for the general idea, as Linda Fisher came up with the original, but I did change up the color scheme--I've been wanting to do a card in these colors for a few weeks now and I love how it turned out!

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And because I just have to share, I read this great article this week about how time and motherhood intersect.  For those who don't know, I wrote my master's thesis on time and space in the Orthodox Church, and how that plays out in the physical space of the church.  So the author's thoughts on Kairos and Chronos really resonated with me, in addition to being timely to my stage of mothering.  My favorite line? "Parenting is hard. Just like lots of important jobs are hard. Why is it that the second a mother admits that it’s hard, people feel the need to suggest that maybe she’s not doing it right? Or that she certainly shouldn’t add more to her load. Maybe the fact that it’s so hard means she IS doing it right…in her own way…and she happens to be honest."

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