7 Quick Takes: Snarky Edition

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I'm almost at the end of a VERY long week of solo parenting, and I'm feeling pretty snarky, so consider yourself warned.  

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I knew my husband had a trip planned starting Wednesday, so I was mentally girding my loins for a three day solo parenting gig starting Wednesday.  At breakfast on Tuesday morning (Valentine's Day), my husband mentioned something in passing about his co-author from New York coming in for a book symposium.  I said, "What book symposium?" My husband suddenly looked both sheepish and guilty at the same time and said, "Oh, um, did I forget to tell you about that?  I have my book symposium tonight with a dinner."  No, you didn't tell me.  So I had a sad sack dinner of hot dogs with the boys.  At least there was candy from Piglet's school celebrations at the end of it.  (Because my husband doesn't believe in giving me chocolate for Valentine's Day.  Oh well.  He does other nice things throughout the year).  

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My copy of Breaking Dawn arrived on Monday, and that just made everything better on Tuesday night.  Yay for amazon.com preorder!!

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I finally went to see a podiatrist yesterday about my foot, and she said that it was a strange place for a stress fracture, as most stress fractures tend to occur closer to the toes, and ordered and MRI.  Oh, and she put me in a boot.  Did I mention that I have three children under age five and about fifty thousand stairs in my house?  After nearly killing myself on the stairs last night, I decided I won't be wearing the boot in the house, just when I go out.  My foot hurts almost as much or more in it anyway. I had the MRI this morning, and the tech couldn't see anything amiss, but I'm hoping the doctors will be able to figure something out. 

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Birdie got pink eye this week, just as Boo was getting over his. It doesn't seem to bother her as much as Boo, who required regular Tylenol on top of the eye drops.  But she did have a scare scare last Friday night requiring oral steroids, nebulized steroids and a narrowly avoided hospital stay, although now she seems to be back to baseline.  Which is to say, she sounds terrible, but at least she isn't coughing/crying constantly and projectile vomiting.  Now she just coughs every couple of hours and has normal amounts of spit up.  We have appointments with GI and pulmonary next week, so I'm hoping someone can figure something out.  

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I've been plugging away at the flower projects for Spring Fling and made this hydrangea card one afternoon earlier this week.  I used a tutorial from Valita's Fresh Folds for the flowers, but I made up my own card design for the rest.  I'm pretty pleased with how it came out!  (Apologies for the less than stellar photo--I just didn't have it in me to set up my whole light box thingie today).

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I'm sure everyone who is on Facebook has seem some version of the meme with six pictures that say "What my friends think, what my mom thinks, what I think," and so on.  The best one I've seen so far is this one, posted by a friend who lives near Fargo.  As my dad's family is from Fargo, and I used to live in Minneapolis, I personally found it hilarious.  But maybe my sense of humor is warped.  But you knew that already.

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