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For the first time in my life I am taking an antibiotic other than amoxicillin.  This is a big event for me.  I typically only take an antibiotic once every two or three years.  Not a big fan of them and happily don’t need them often.  But this annoying sinus infection has been around for a month and I’ve had no voice for the past ten days.  The boys have never been happier.  Mom can’t yell.  Hubby has been calling me Rose.

Remember that scene in Titanic after the boat sank and Rose is floating on the wood?  (Spoiler alert-the ship sinks.)  She croaks out, “Jack, there’s a boat.”  She promises she’ll never let go and then lets go of his hand.  The she calls out in her croaky voice, “Come back, come back!”  That’s been me all week.

I’ve been off from work all week because the university is closed.  It’s been lovely.  Hubby and I have been watching Law & Order SVU marathons every day (doink doink).  The boys have been enjoying Disney Infinity and Skylanders Swapforce.  When we hooked up the Infinity, we spent the first hour or so just playing on a giant green field and had a blast.  We’re easy to please.  Adopted #3 Son helped us to hook it up and suggested we try some of the other neat features.  The boys have been exploring it.  I still have to explore the world with Captain Jack Sparrow.

We have a full house of animals now.  Shemp is slowly accepting the adorable three kittens-Cujo, TJ, and Loki.  Rex is very excited to meet them, but they have to get a little bigger.  Each still only weighs about two or three pounds.  Little kittens were abandoned in a farm and we couldn’t just take one, or two.  We couldn’t leave one all by itself so… we have three kittens.

We already had the seven fish and now we have eight.

And of course the biggest, current excitement is two bearded dragons!  Camo and Gunter are each enjoying their new 40 gallon tanks with decor, water bowls, carpet, heat lamps, sunlight lamps, nighttime lamps, and daily crickets, salad, and food pellets.  They are thriving and pooping regularly (which in the world of a mother, regular poops are always a good sign).

And danger has just entered.  Hubby found SVU on demand.  This is not good.  I see many hours captivated by Dick Wolf.  Damn you, Dick Wolf.  Damn you, doink doink.