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I found myself having to take a drive on this blustery day.  That is the way it goes.  I make an appointment, and inclement weather follows.  Overdue Pap smear finally going to get done?  Hello, blizzard!  So of course today was rainy and windy and downright chilly.

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JD has really taken a shine to reading lately.  Not just paging through his board books, but actually bringing me books and telling me “wead!”  True to his age, he really enjoys the same book over and over and over.  I have read “Where Is Baby’s Pumpkin?” so many times in the past two days it has gone from cute to “good grief, let me dig out our old flap books for a change of pace”.

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I have joked in the past about sibling rivalry and jealousy.  Sometimes it is so subtle that you do not even really notice it, like when my husband would hug and kiss me good bye.  Tater would run up and wrap himself around my leg or wiggle between us to get in on the love fest.  Other than that, it never really dawned on him to be jealous, even when a strange kid would end up plopping in my lap at the library to read a story.

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I really do not like to leave the house in the evening, particularly when it is just the kids and me.  Even if we managed to have a dinner where everything went rather well, and only a small portion of food landed on the floor, that in no way means venturing out into the world is a good idea.

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We have taken to having our dinner outdoors.  It’s nice to eat under the shade tree, and whatever JD drops, the chickens clean up for me, so it’s rather win-win.  Plus dinner tends to coincide with what I call the “witching hour”.

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