1. Whew! I don’t know about all of you, but this week has been a total whirlwind for me. Just crazy busy, plus my husband had the flu. When it rains, it pours. Or spikes a fever. He seems to be on the mend, though, which is great as long as my daughter and I don’t come down with the same thing. Sometimes I feel like we are just a circle of sickness, passing germs around and around. If it finally gets warm, will all the colds and flu magically disappear? I can only hope. And oh, how I am.

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