7 Quick Takes Friday, #50

1. Thank you so much for all the get-well wishes over the past couple of days! I did feel better the day after my awful sickness set in, but not good enough to stop complaining. I hope it's out of my system today, but as luck would have it, today is the day I should be sick. Justin has the day off, so he could be the lone parent while I slept off the cold or whatever it was that had me in the throes of agony (hey, it was a nasty cold, OK?!). Oh well. Maybe some FUN is in order, instead.

2. Speaking of fun, what are your Valentine's Day plans? I have a hankering for a movie -- rental or theater, it doesn't matter. Any suggestions?

3. One morning this week, Lauren woke up crying, just at tad bit too early. I wasn't happy about it, but as it was within the realm of normalcy (7, instead of her usual 7:30-ish), I didn't try to tuck her back in like I usually do in the early mornings. I stumbled into her room, croaking out a Good Morning, Sunshine! in my still sleepy voice. At her bedside, I reached in to untangle her from her blankies as she whined for her lambie. Then -- miracle of miracles -- Lauren asked to be covered back up. I almost didn't understand her, but as soon as I did, I lifted the blanket back over her with complete nonchalance so as not to startle her into a retraction of her wishes. I tiptoed out as she rolled over and re-snuggled with her sleeping paraphernalia. She slept for another half hour.

I was dumbfounded. A 22-month old who asks for more sleep? Yes, please.

4. I came home from a meeting one night last week after the girls had been bathed and put to bed by their daddy. I was missing them. I missed smelling their lavender-lotioned skin and their freshly shampooed hair, missed snuggling with them for stories. I walked into the bathroom and there, on the bathmat (aka: thickly folded towel) was a perfect set of Mia's footprints. It was just the sight to make me feel like I hadn't missed anything after all.

I know this is a bad picture, but I loved it anyway.

5. We've had the best kind of snow several times this week: beautifully falling down in big, fluffy, silent flakes -- and then not sticking at all. I feel almost blasphemous writing that last part down. The 'not sticking' part. I used to be SO excited to see the snow build up (and I still am deep down), but I'm getting surprisingly sick of it this winter. We've had more snow than I remember us getting in years past, and it's not quite as fun as it used to be when I could curl up and go back to sleep at the declaration of a snow day. Now, I have to go about my regular business -- the business of motherhood.

Which never seems to stop for snow days.

6. We made these cute heart pillows yesterday for our Valentine's Day craft:

I'll have more details up later if you want to check in again -- hopefully by tomorrow at the latest. Try to contain your excitement until then!

7. Happy Valentine's Day!

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