Time flies . . .

. . . when you have waves of illnesses going through your home, are buying your first house, and are nearing the beta release of your product at work. Has it really been three weeks since the last time I updated?

Not for lack of things to say, I assure you. I went through a fascinating lunch meeting with several other working moms whose husbands are SAHDs that is screaming for a blog entry (later, though), and the girls have been doing tons of neat stuff. Lent is always a time for reflection, and all kinds of meaningful thoughts have been ambling through my brain. There are the hiccups in the weaning process . . . in other words, fairly normal life for a young family of four.

Right now I'm too caught up in the thousands of details of our busy lives to focus on anything else. So that's what I'll write on - the details.

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I want to start with Lenora's latest five-word sentence: "I want . . . more . . . pepper . . . too!" The story behind this is pretty funny. Our girls saw us putting pepper on our food. Since we like spicy stuff, we use quite a bit. So of course, they wanted some as well. So we put a little pepper in a pile on their plate, assuming that they would taste it and then demand milk and get upset with us - but would hopefully also learn something. Well, no such "luck". They dipped their broccoli into the pepper - and LOVED it! Iliana demanded to be allowed to serve herself her own pepper, and that was when Lenora delivered another fine five-word zinger.

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The current big craze / phrase in the household is, "purple, purple, purple, hey!" My MIL's SO started this, and it's now one of the girls' favorite phrases. In general, purple is really in style around here. And orange. I'm just happy it's not pink. I'm not very fond of pink.

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We've been having fun dreaming about what we want to do with our new house. It's a big house in excellent condition, but cost more than I had originally planned on spending. I'm honestly struggling with feeling embarrassed about it - and both the dreams and the embarrassment deserve their own posts.

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I also want to write a post on health care. After going from no care, to little care, to the best care around - I have a few thoughts on the matter.

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Edited to add: This post claims to have been written by Bjorn, but it wasn't. I (Ethel) just accidentally posted it from his Google account. Whoops. I'll fix it later.