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I just tucked the youngest into bed for (hopefully) a short morning nap, the oldest is in Paris with the InLaws, so I have a little time to work. The backlog is... aaargh ( Read more... )

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It was obviously needed (especially after climbing up to the sixth floor with the two kids, two bags and the stroller because the elevator was out of order, eek). I just spent two glorious hours mindlessly reading and browsing stuff on my laptop with a candle burning nearby. Talking of candles, I used to get either nauseous or coughing fits from ( Read more... )

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Toad slept through the night, a little over 12 hours straight last night, yay ! I can't tell you how relieved we both are. She's been having bad nights ever since she got out of the hospital, and last week was particularly rough. So rough the neighbors noticed. She woke up at the most irregular times, she was fine as long as one of us (or better ( Read more... )

Funny how I just need to start writing a post that says "I can't find the right buttons" without finding them indeed. So that means I need to sew 18 buttonholes for the justaucorps, plus six decorative buttons, and that will leave me with six more spare buttons - possibly to be used on a matching waistcoat. That's a lot of buttonholes... I'll ( Read more... )

*yawn* I'm tired, not gonna stay up much longer. Today was devoted to family and home improvement (and sleeping in, yay !). We're getting a new projector so the Home Geek cut a shelf to size and I painted it something that should be brick red after I put the kids to bed. You never really know until all coats are on and dry if the color is going to ( Read more... )

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Yeah, I've been bad at updating lately. I know, I know... The kids are keeping me kinda busy, particularly last week when the home geek was abroad (because people at his job can't plan work properly and had to send him to England to fix things he said would need to be fixed weeks before, gaaaaah !).
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