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100 Happy Days*
I am so glad that the last two weeks are behind me. I know I posted about Ruby’s experience with Roseola and how hard it hit my little girl. Two days after she finally started feeling herself, I started feeling a little… off. I was extremely irritable on Wednesday and I couldn’t really put a finger on what was causing it. I didn’t feel well when I went to bed, but I chalked it up to exhaustion after a long week of interrupted sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and knew I had a fever… and thus began the worst flu I’ve had in ages. It…
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Time Out For Me*
I’ve been thinking about something quite a bit over the last few weeks. I’ve had a really hard time trying to put it into words, so bear with me as I try again now. This year didn’t start off particularly well for me. I had my car accident, Ruby was sick forever, and I finally got another interview at the school I had given my heart to for two years… and then I didn’t get the job. I felt… lost. After enduring a particularly difficult month of January, I accepted that 2013 just wasn’t going to be my year. I could feel that there was something about this year that…
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Piano Love*
Oh, I am tired. I started feeling a little off the day we left P.E.I., and by the end of this week my symptoms developed into a full blown chest cold + cough. The cold itself is not terrible, but the cough is keeping me up at night. And then of course my darling wee-bean decided that 4:30am was a glorious wake-up time today. (I disagreed, but apparently I get no say in the matter. *sigh*) She was probably just too excited after spending a wonderful day with her Auntie. My sister drove down yesterday morning and spent the day with us. It was a glorious, relaxing day. We chatted,…
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Apple Time*
When I was little, we had an informal tradition in my house: apple time. Every morning that I was home, after our morning routines / chores were complete we would get to settle in the living room and watch a TV show. We would spread out a blanket on the floor, then my mom would bring us apple slices in these little wooden salad bowls we all loved. I’m not exactly sure how it started, but we loved apple time, and I’m pretty sure that it ignited my love for apples… which are still my favourite fruit. That being said, I’m a bit weird when it comes to apples. I…
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Giveaway: 25 Holiday Cards!
This is truly the season of giving. Last night my doorbell rang just before 8:30. I was upstairs, just about to slip into my jammies when I heard it, and a storm cloud immediately began brewing over my head. I had just settled Ruby and was sure that it was going to be someone selling something. I was wrong. As I threw open the door, I found a lovely plate of Christmas baking waiting for me on my step. Attached was a card that wished us a Merry Christmas, signed simply from “Your Friends”. As my grinch heart grew three sizes in that minute, I immediately regretted my immediate angry…