Miscellaneous...

*This morning, Addie J said to me, “Mommy, I love you! You are my best friend!” I had barely 5 seconds to enjoy and revel in this before she went on, “And Abita is my bestest friend! I love you, Abita!” That’s right: I’m second to the dog.

*Also this morning on my run, I could see that I was approaching some sort of road kill. I neatly skirted it and was busy congratulating myself on not even getting a close look at it when the carcass of a rabbit suddenly appeared in my path as God is my witness I almost stepped right in it. I performed my (probably famous) standard shriek-and-leap, cleared the rabbit, and almost got hit by a car.  Note to self: work on more dignified running.

*Dave spent, like, two days looking for just the right plain white button-down shirt for Gabby to wear to her dance recital.  She wore it to the recital on Sunday and then got Strawberry Crush (thanks, Mom, for bringing THAT over) all down the front.  Now we need to find another plain white button-down before her Thursday recital.  This sequence of events actually might cause me to have a hernia. 

*…But on the plus side, when I chose to talk to Gabby calmly about telling us right away when these things happen– rather than expressing the epic freakout that was going on in my head– my reward was to have Addie J bring me a piece of paper, saying, “I made this for you, Mommy!”  She had not actually made that picture, and she chose the wrong picture to plagiarize: it was a drawing by Gabby of Dave and I, crossed out, with the caption “I hate my pairints.” 

…Okay, so I’m also going to work on the Addie Chronicles this morning.  I’ll post a new entry with a link to the latest ones, when I’m finished.  I think we’re getting to the ones where I’m really, really big, which is fun to look at.  My throat was all swelled up like a toad’s.