The divine miss M has a sinus infection. Sorry, but this is GREAT news.
a) We have a diagnosis. She is not, in fact, demon-possessed at night.
b) The infection didn’t settle in her ears! Might we have outgrown the ear woes?
Actually, though she has slept really badly the last couple of nights, I feel better about it. We came up with a plan. I basically take the early shift, and stay up—read or work on the computer or whatever—and go in as needed. I found I got crankier having to wake up and deal with her than I did just resigning myself to being awake and at her beck and call. Yes, I would like to get more than 5 hours at a stretch as we anticipate BB, but it’s OK.
I also had a tender thought as I was watching/helping her sleep the other night—she is training us for him.
I also got up with her early this morning—I was just awake for some reason—and thinking about some writing projects and something I’ve been stuck on just broke open while rocking there in the dark. Cool!
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Each bottle of Children’s Motrin or Tylenol we buy comes with a tiny dispensing cup, about the size of Hagrid’s thimble, if he sewed. I am trying to come up with a craft project that would utilize the eleventy-one cups we currently have. My thought is to have the girls paint them, poke a hole in the bottom of each, put some kind of bell-thingy in them, then hang them on a long string to make some kind of funky mobile/wind chime. Any other ideas?
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Met with the Transforming Congregations clergy group today. It is energizing to be with these people. During check-in I brought up the idea of a new church development in former-prison - turned-arts-community, because I’m pretty much talking about this thing to everyone I know. I secretly hope someone who isn’t about to have three children under the age of 5 will take the idea and run with it. It is weird to be an evangelist for a church that doesn’t yet exist.
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Logging into my wordpress dashboard I noticed that an adult site had linked to me. I’m used to getting comment spam from these sites and deleting it, but a link TO my site was a new thing. Apparently someone got to me by googling for three terms that I used in a single post, but uh, not in the way the person was expecting. Yet he linked to me from the site’s blog, saying, “This isn’t what I was looking for but it was an interesting read nonetheless.”
Wow.
I am huge as a house, it takes me several seconds to get up from a sitting position, I have circles under my eyes, and I am covered in my toddler’s body fluids for significant portions of the day… and yet, I still have what it takes to attract the attention of guys trolling for good p-o/rn.
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If you throw those eleventy gazillion little cups away, you will find tons of ways to use them, as soon as they’re gone, I promise.
Bwaahahaha! You rock, RM!
Here’s hoping the sinuses clear up soon and you get some rest.
You are so beautiful, so very beautiful, to me…
You are one rockin’ hot mama!!
For the cups: you could make some cool shades for Christmas lights. Have the girls paint them colors, poke a hole in the bottom, and push the little lights through. String them in the girls’ room and let them enjoy their handiwork before bed. I’d check to make sure they aren’t getting too hot, but those little tree lights are made to be pretty safe. I love the bell idea too–another great ornament idea or windchime-sort-of thing if you run with it. Have fun!
Well, how cool is it that you are interesting to the dirty boys? Hey, you still got it.
Once painted they could be the receptacles of a kind of treasure hunt game for church fetes/fundraisers..cups upside down, each covering a small sweet but one with a “magic” sweet that led to some sort of other prize.
Sorry. We spent last night at a really depressing committee meeting discussing the “Christmas Fayre” and I can only think in terms of sideshows today.
Hope M recovers soon and gives you a chance to build up some sleep reserves in advance of BB’s arrival.
You can make a bird feeder out of the eleventy one cups. Poke a hole through the botom of a cup, knot the botton of a pice of heavy duty string (or jute), Kont and slide another cup, soon and so forth until you have it as long as you want. Some peanut butter ans unflower seeds and ther you go.
This can also be used to hold little barretts and scrunchies for little girly hair, and hung from an appropriate height in their room.
B
Tie-on pig noses, jellybean sorting aids, finger puppet faces, shell game aids for early childhood graft training.
There’s nothing guys don’t want p-o../r=n about. Somebody’s probably out there right this moment, googling feverishly for his iguana and formica fetish.
Nope, what you do with the cups is make kissing balls. A la my Memamma.
She used to do it with NyQuil cups.
Glue glitter to the cup edges. Pin them onto a styrofoam ball in close proximity.
Hang up. Pretend it’s mistletoe.
Why? I don’t know. But we had a million of them.