January 28, 2012

7 Quick Takes: January 28, 2012 (Vol. 110)

in blogging, food, homeschooling, illnesses/accidents

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I’ve been sick all week, and this has been pretty miserable.  It’s mostly just stuffed up sinuses, along with a headache (because my sinuses are stuffed up) and tiredness (because I’m not sleeping well because, well you know).

I have a sneaky suspicion that having the weather go between warmish to really cold, from raining to snowing, and all kinds of other things is just not conducive to me getting better.

~ 2 ~

Isn’t it funny how when you’ve been sick for several days in a row, you sometimes start to think that you’re never going to be well again.  Even when you know you’ll get better (or you hope, at least!), you just get caught up in the moment of being sick.

~ 3 ~

While our homeschooling has been kind of off and on this week (our attendance sheet looks like we’re just taking random days off, and the house isn’t looking very good either), you can read about a fun project we did when the kids were a bit younger with one of our favorite books – The Missing Piece.

You can read my post, Creative Writing Inspired by Favorite Books, over at The Happy Housewife this week!

~ 4 ~

Despite our very off schedule due to my illness, I must be doing something right.

This week, Molly said to me, “When I’m a Mom, I think I want to homeschool my kids too.  I think they’d like that.”

~ 5 ~

Today is the last day to enter the giveaway at The Homeschool Classroom to win a registration ticket to The 2:1 Conference.  The conference is only 90 days away!

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Okay, so I always get stuck on #6.  I have no idea why.  The last time that I was working on my seven quick takes and told Eric that I was stuck, he said, “Wait.  I know this.  You’re on number six, right?”

So, after being stuck here for a while, I thought I would share a great $2 personalized t-shirt deal (just the $2 plus shipping):

~ 7 ~

I have a new yum-o snack that I’ve had a few times at night.  I’ve been skipping out on most sweets, so this is a fun sweet to have and I don’t feel bad about it.

I cut up about 8 – 10 strawberries, throw in a teaspoon of sugar, and then a couple of tablespoons of Reddi Whip.  Now that I haven’t really been having desserts much at all, this definitely feels like a wonderful dessert.  Of course, I figure it will be even better once early summer rolls around and we get to go strawberry picking.  (Oh, and then we’ll have to make strawberry freezer jam, of course.)

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January 24, 2012

Middle of the Night Epiphanies

in illnesses/accidents

Last night, I felt like I had several epiphanies that kept waking me up…

1. Pinterest is destroying my blog because it’s taking links away from it and putting them in a whole line of waffle irons set up on the counter.

2. I need to sell my house, but I’m afraid that people may notice that there is a giant tree laying right on top of it.  I decide that we should put a “For Sale” sign in front of the house anyway, and we’ll just hope that people don’t notice.

3. I have to figure out a different way to paint because all of my paintings started having paint leak off of them, like they’re crying.

Finally, I had an epiphany that I apparently have some odd side effects from taking a pain reliever before bed that has a “PM” addition to it.

While the Pinterest-waffle iron thing wasn’t the dead giveaway to that epiphany (it made so much sense in the middle of the night), I finally realized it when I couldn’t stop waking up while Eric was getting ready for work and he said, “Are you okay?” and I answered with, “Yeah.  I think.  I don’t know.”  And, each subsequent question he asked me also had to end with me giving and answer and then adding, “I don’t know.”

Happily, I slept it off and was done with crazy epiphanies.  I am also done with taking a medicine with a “PM” after the name.

 

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