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Grief has no expiration date... neither does love

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Yesterday my dear hubby had to go to the Festival des Sucres (or Maple Festival) to help do some activities with the Francophone scouts. Which meant that the boys and I were left to our own devices. Excellent. I spent the morning cleaning my room. Oh yes. I'm a big partay animal! The boys spent the morning playing quite nicely together. This is where you're thinking... "cleaning? your room ?? what, that took all of an hour ? hehehehe..." Nope. I never really held onto that lesson of keeping your room clean. My room is almost always a disaster. Things dumped here, stacked there, stuffed under that, draped on that... etc etc. So I gave it a good purge, dust, wipe, fold and vacuum. It's no awesome. :) No, you get no before and after pictures, it was THAT bad. But I'm rambling. I didn't start this entry to tell you how horrible my room is and how it took me like 4 hours to clean... ok, maybe I did... but I have OTHER motives too! I f

Pay no mind to the idiot in the corner

A few weeks ago we went to the doctor. Nothing big, just a few questions that are not easily answered by Google. Darn it. Talk to the doctor about Jerome and his height... or lack of height. Is it genetics or diet? I can't do anything about genetics. I'm short, therefore my offspring are short. But his diet? If I have to sit on him and force feed him I will. Nah. Doctor said he's a typical picky eater that will get better with time. In the meantime, try smoothies with tofu or yogurt and change it up a bit. Talk to the doctor about Xavier's spots. He has white patches on his neck and chest/arms that are very white. I mean, whiter than we normally are white. And his birthmark? Yea. That's now developed black dots. What the hell? Google automatically says, melanoma. Uh huh. Of course. That's a good thing to do right?? Stupid me. Doctor says she's going to refer us to a dermatologist. Oh great. That'll take months to get in. Turns out not so muc