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I also need to make it a priority to carve out some (creative, not for-pay) writing time in my schedule. Apparently the last two years have made for some very fertile compost in my brain, but a bunch of hastily-scribbled notes in notebooks piled around my desk isn't going to cut it for much longer.

Also I need to get to the library.

Today's Child Adventure

I didn't notice that my foot cream had fallen out of my pocket and the ladies had found it until I saw their smiling, greasy faces. And greasy hands. And the big smear on the card table top.

We bought the right couch, though, because the greasy fingerprints appear to have lifted right out.

But now I do need some new foot cream. And the living room smells like sage and rosemary and I suspect it will continue to do so for a while.

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(Simone is playing with her baby doll.)

Mom: "What's the baby's name, Simone? Does the baby have a name?"

Simone, seriously: "Baby don't talk."

one last kid note of the day

I thought that, when Simone is being chased around the room by April, as happens not infrequently, Simone was saying "please," as in "please stop." But it turns out she's been saying "freeze!"