It's important to be warm

Benjamin has been off and on sporting a 104° temp over the past three days. When he’s miserable, he’s red hot all over and grumping. When he’s not, he’s climbing up and down the stairs. He will be 10 months old on Thursday. My mother reports I didn’t conquer stairs until I was 14 months. By then, he’ll be driving the car.

The fever has also made him go off his food, which means he’s nursing like a champion and I feel like I’m starving about every three hours. He’s turned up his snot-riddled little nose at his beloved yogurt and Weetabix. We did just discover that he will not refuse Trader Joe’s Triple Ginger Snaps. Again, he proves that he is no fool. Fresh mama’s milk and cookies…he’s on to something here.

Saggar remains unimpressed by the third round of antibiotics she’s on. Each one worse tasting, and this one smells awful too. She too suffers a snotty nose.

The taller members of the house have not fared much better than the short ones in the health department. Sometime last week, when it was Spring, I thought I was getting bad allergies early. A few days later, the snow returned and Ian informed me that he had caught my allergies. Bother. We’ve had the ongoing nasty that wanders from headache to sinus to flu-ey allover ache and back through again. Nothing that a few good night’s sleep couldn’t fix. Too bad those are as rare as golden-egg-laying talking bunny rabbits around here.

Other than the extreme sport that is booger-wiping and dropper syringes of medicine in small mouths, all is well.

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I am continuing to focus on the positive. It’s been a hard year for that, but I’m up for the challenge. I guess I have to be.

I’m working…a lot. I’m dealing with some creeping crud of my own as well as that of the SaggarCat. That’s a whole other post that I just don’t feel like writing.

I’ve found several things that I’ve liked a lot recently, then my computer crashed and I lost them. In order not to do that again, I’m going to dump them here.

This sums up the entire Scooter Libby situation.

Misogyny Is So Odd. Short, smart read. Need to keep this on file as it explains things better than I do when I’m angry.

The General v. The RepubCon. Guess who gets handed his pants when it comes to understanding how to deal with Iraq.

Last, but certainly not least:

Donald E. Davis is a painter who was commissed by NASA and is offering the digital images up to the public. As he says it so bluntly, “You paid for them and they’re yours.”
More at his site. (Z, your boys will love these…that goes for both Zs I know, actually.)

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