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Astrid fell down today and bloodied her mouth. It was horrible. A bag of frozen milk made it all better, though. Well, mostly better. She's waking and crying more than usual, so I suspect it still hurts.

I think I'm going to try to keep frozen bananas stocked in the freezer for that purpose. That's easier and more multipurpose than pumping.

I also think I need to institute a self-rule that if I don't finish a (typical length) book within a week, I have to start a different one. I can read much faster than one book a week, but tend to get hung up on a slow book for months on end if I let myself. I'm a little annoyed with myself because I have to take a book that I really wanted to read back to the library before getting a chance to read it because I got hung up on another book that I'm enjoying, but it just isn't going very fast. It also isn't in as high-demand as the other, so it isn't on hold and I can renew it. Premeditatedly stopping in the middle just rubs me the wrong way, though.

My grandmother sent me copies of letters sent to her family by her brother during WWII, complete with censored portions (starting with "This must have been censored out of the last letter, but"...) and a code he used to tell where he was stationed. Very interesting. Unlike this post :)

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[navygreen.livejournal.com]

Aww, poor Astrid. :-(

I love historical stuff like that. I'm so glad that both my grandmother and Philip's mom are very into genealogy, as they've got TONS of stuff bound together to pass on to us. It is so interesting!

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Poor Astrid, poor mum.

Think twice about that slow book rule.
If you are slowing up on the book, because you arent' interested---get that book out of your house.

If its just a bad time for that book (no time to focus, difficult topic to deal with mentally or emotionally), put it on a list, and get back to it later.

But lord, don't stop in the middle of a good one because of a deadline. I'll renew a book if I'm not done. I'm on my second renewal with one on prosody. I'm making notes, and scanning portions---and still taking it to bed to re-read some of the sample/illustrative poems.

(I'm slowly gaining a mini library on my computer of pages scanned from the Irish poetry section....)

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Congratulations on the letters; that sort of correspondence is a rare pleasure. As is your journal.

[nedia782.livejournal.com]

Our chalk board fell off the wall onto Ashur, his mouth is all swollen and bloddied.. Must be the day :(

Hope Astrid feels better!!

[jtersesk.livejournal.com]

Niv flipped head-first over the arm of the couch last night. Thank god there was a big stuffed animal under there, or he'd have plunked right onto ceramic tile. Must have been a bad day for babies yesterday!