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This is just a reminder: tomorrow is Mama Loves! If you’ve got something positive to share, blog about it tomorrow and link up here. My post will be up before 1am along with Mister Linky. Visit THIS POST for full details on this blog challenge.

ALSO, I’ve decided to start the Recipe Swap Sundays this week! If you feel like participating, let me know. I can either use Mister Linky to connect with your blogs, or you can just email me and I’ll provide a list of the week’s participants and recipes at the bottom of my post.

My new laptop arrived today. I’m so excited!! She’s red and beautiful and so shiny and hasn’t had a single drop of juice spilled on her yet. *sigh* I’m so excited. Oh, and since she’s part of Dell’s (PRODUCT)red participation, she’s even helping Africans with AIDS. How cool is that?

I know within a week or so all that will change. Well, hopefully she’ll still be red, but the dust will start to gather and little fingerprints will likely mar her now reflective screen. And that’s okay. I don’t mind, and I know I won’t mind then when it happens. Mothers perpetually sacrifice and I’m really totally good with that! Today, anyway. Tomorrow might find me in a different, much more stressed mood, but today shines on me as I want to be. I’m perfectly content. I’ve been patient and happy. I’ve maintained a proper perspective all day. I haven’t lost my temper even once! I’ve been flexible and … well, and now I have a new laptop, so life is pretty good.

Just wanted to stop by to say “hey!” to all you bloggy-friends in the great abyss of space and time. I’m off to finish setting up my new friend. I’ve not decided yet what to name her. It feels a betrayal to name her Ruthie so soon after the death of the first. Also, Ruthie may be hanging around for a while. Rick is hoping he can swap out some parts toward another resurrection. We’ll see what my brilliant man can do. I have no doubt he’ll make her live again. He’s amazing.

All right. I’m off. Happy Wednesday to you all!

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Ellie, while holding an angel high over the Nativity, Thomas and other train friends: “Attention, engines and people! Behold, a savior has been born; He is Christ the Lord! Engines and people! Sing ‘Glory to God in the highest!’”

Zach: “Wow, Mom, dogs REALLY like milk! Wait — that’s a cow.”

Ellie: “Um, Mom? I was trying to listen to you read that book, but the Christmas tree is so big and beautiful, and it sticks up above the top of the book. So I decided to look at the tree instead of looking at the book. I hope you don’t mind.”

Zach: “Let’s play Under Britches!”
Translation: “Let’s play London Bridge.”

Zach: “RUFFA-BUM-BUM!”
Zach repeatedly shouted this all month in a very manly voice (well, as manly as a three-year-old can). “Little Drummer Boy” is by far Zach’s favorite Christmas song.

Zach: “Mom, what are you doing in here? You know this is Daddy’s fix-it shop – right? I don’t think he would want you in here, ’cause you don’t know how to fix anything and you might get cut and I don’t want to see your guts.”

Ellie: “There’s a bug in my room! C’mon, Mom.”
Zach: “I got the scissors. Everyone got your sharp stuff? We’ll cut that bug!”
Me: “Wait – what?”
Ellie: “Mom, you get a paper towel. Me and Zach got the scissors. Let’s go, brave people! Let’s go get that bug.”
Zach: “Brave people to the rescue!”

Ellie: “I don’t want to go home. I want to stay here ’cause this is vacation and I’m a vacation girl.”

Zach: “It’s aggrieved!”
He shouts this whenever he and Ellie agree on something.

Zach, upon seeing my new guitar: “Wait, Mom! Don’t touch anything.” Three minutes later he returned with his drum. “Are you ready to rock? Let’s jam!”

This is a reminder: tomorrow is Tuesday and that means Mama Loves. Join me in putting a positive grin on blogging. There has to be something you can praise God for this week! Visit this post for full details.

I’m sick and pretending I’m not. My day’s plans include attempting to ignore a croaky throat, cotton-like mouth and impassible nasal passages and then going to vote.

Let me encourage you to get out there! Much is at stake with this election.

I’ll not tell you whom to vote for, but I will ask you to handle your civic duties with sobriety. I’ve heard many (my own husband even) claim our votes don’t count. Some believe the election is already decided. Others (like us) live in an area so thoroughly one-sided that, thanks to the electoral college, our votes will be counted, but will not given the right of impact. We can either vote with the majority or be drowned out by them. Some even joke that we should intentionally vote for the loser so we can claim it’s not our fault when the country goes further downhill.

All of this thinking bothers me severely. The campaign is over, but the election is not. Polls mean nothing. They’re “best guesses” and little more; they’re a few people’s opinions. But your vote, my vote, these mean something.

Get out there, rain, sleet, snow or 85 degree weather! Suffer through whatever you must. Voting is a privilege we Americans miserably take for granted. Yes, we have been granted this honor, so take advantage of it.

I was working in the kitchen when I heard Isabel very calmly call me from the living room:

“Um … Mommy? I think the potty’s broken.”

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