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Allies in Life’s Battlefield

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Boy it seems like everyone is struggling these days in one way or another.  Financial difficulties, lost jobs, sick family members, injuries.  I’m sure others are struggling other ways and privately. 

So dang it all!!  We all could use a little distraction, don’tcha think?! 

Today is “Get-to-know-your-blog-friends Day!

Answer the following questions in the comments in any way you wish to…with words, or links to photos, music or video.  Take several days if you must…but I’d love to see everyone’s responses.  Could be a fun mid-winter distraction, no?

So, here we go…

You’re stranded on a deserted island…(doesn’t that sound lovely right about now???)

You’re hungry…you wish you had _______________.

You’re thirsty…you wish you had_______________.

It’s dark…you wish you had ________________.

You’re lonely…you wish you had _______________.

You’re bored…you wish you had _______________.

You miss reading…you wish you had _______________.

You miss TV…you wish you could watch ______________.

Have fun!!!  Be creative!  Share yourself.

And here’s to better times.  *raising glass* 

“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not cave in.”  -Rabindranath Tagore

The One Time I Don’t Bring My Camera….

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Neighbor Friend and I brought three of our collective children to see The Magic Treehouse Live Onstage last Friday night.  The venue is exquisite and I went without my camera!!  CURSES!!!!  I swear I watched the gilded woodwork with more intensity than the show.  (And the show was fabulous!)

Here are a few photos I took of the ceiling using my cameraphone.  I have half a mind to book another show just so I can get in again and photograph to my heart’s content. 

Fevers and Heat Waves

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Well, last week was a bit of a struggle as our family dealt with three colds, one tooth abscess, and one stomach bug (so far.)  We’re holding our breaths and crossing our fingers that we don’t add strep to the list…Big Girl spent the night at Neighbor’s on Friday, only to wake up in the morning to find Neighbor Girl crying with a splitting headache and a 103 fever…a quick trip to the doctor confirmed strep.  And yes, of course they slept in the same room.  Ah, well, what’re you gonna do?

So when Sunday came along, and we were stuck at home with the stomach bug girl on a gorgeous 44 degree day, there was nothing to do but open all the windows, air out the fungafunga, and wash bedding and bathrooms.  Zan kept going behind me closing doors and windows, and I would go back and open them up!  It smelled SO fresh!!!!  Ahhhhh….chilly, but bliss!  AND we took Shrew’s advice, chipped the grill out of the deck ice, and fired it up!  Those steaks were divine!!! 

As of today we all seem to be on the mend, (for now) and things are back to normal and below freezing.  One of my photo assignments for this week is “flowers in the rain.”  Might be a *bit* of a challenge!  And Mister’s second birthday is on Thursday.  I have my rose colored goggles of optimism on, and just know that as of Thursday he will start sleeping through the night consistently, will eat anything I put in front of him, and
will stop pushing all the buttons on the DVD player…(please just let me have my little fantasy.)  🙂

Toontown Took My Family

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Super Zippy Google Doodle, Little Pinky Lemon Chomp, and Miss Pearl Fuzzy Pop have gotten lost in the land of Toontown, yet again.  We are entering our third straight weekend of obsessive compulsive Toontown playing.  They rediscovered the game after taking a year and a half long hiatus.  When Mister was born nearly two years ago, it was a fabulous distraction through that winter of houseboundness while I was on bedrest, and later caring for a newborn in the midst of winter.  They overplayed it then, and the novelty wore off eventually.  But I grew to hate Toontown as spring arrived.  “Set limits!” you say?   Try telling that to Super Zippy Google Doodle, the ringleader of the Toons!  *sigh*  Thank goodness we have a basketball game and Super Bowl this weekend…I have hopes that we will all see the light of day.

(MGF…whatever you do, DON”T let your squirts find out about this one!!!)  😉