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Feb. 18th, 2007 06:27 pmAnd so ends what will go down in family history as The Week Without Mum. (Right, it was ten days, but I say if the French and English can have their hundred-and-sixty-year Hundred Years War, we can have our ten-day Week Without Mum.) Weeks Without Mum, by the way, have been nonexistant until now. Dad's been gone for two weeks at least twice (three years ago when he was in Bangladesh, and last summer when he was in Colorado), and both of the parents have been gone for several days in order to attend conferences, church interviews, and (on two occasions) a marriage retreat. Mum has been gone over maybe two nights for a retreat. Working out life with Dad for over a week is weird, yeah? Especially when he isn't even cooking. (Dad's an excellent cook. I could've done with some of his calzones. Mum can't really cook yet, not being able to stand up for very long, so perhaps I can persuade some out of him this week.)
Anyway, we brought Mum home, set up the schoolroom (which has a hide-a-bed couch in it) for her to stay in while she's still mostly on bedrest, and are now trying to drag our lives back into some kind of normalcy. Leandra is in excellent condition, by the by; she's safely in Pittsburgh, but she hasn't had to go on the special respirator they sent her over for yet, and she's very active. (She's a stubborn one, that girl. Takes after me. ^-^ She's not about to let something silly like being small get her down.) If she keeps progressing like that, she could be back in our hospital this week, but they want to make sure everything's going to be okay before they do that, because it would be awful to bring her back and then have to send her away again.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I have a rather peculiar question. Are there any tie-in food products, in Britain, say? Cereal, maybe? Gummy snacks? Only Dad said something about Doctor Who cereal as a joke when we were food-shopping today, and I thought how eerily possible it was, especially as there are, somewhere, Lord of the Rings gummy snacks--either in England or New Zealand, I can't remember where. And, you know, Doctor Who cereal would be kind of awesome. I'm picturing little round sugared corn cereal bits with TARDIS-shaped marshmallows, or something. The sad thing is, I would absolutely buy some, even though my official stand on marketing exploitation is negative, and I would probably hate the taste.
Anyway, we brought Mum home, set up the schoolroom (which has a hide-a-bed couch in it) for her to stay in while she's still mostly on bedrest, and are now trying to drag our lives back into some kind of normalcy. Leandra is in excellent condition, by the by; she's safely in Pittsburgh, but she hasn't had to go on the special respirator they sent her over for yet, and she's very active. (She's a stubborn one, that girl. Takes after me. ^-^ She's not about to let something silly like being small get her down.) If she keeps progressing like that, she could be back in our hospital this week, but they want to make sure everything's going to be okay before they do that, because it would be awful to bring her back and then have to send her away again.
Speaking of Doctor Who, I have a rather peculiar question. Are there any tie-in food products, in Britain, say? Cereal, maybe? Gummy snacks? Only Dad said something about Doctor Who cereal as a joke when we were food-shopping today, and I thought how eerily possible it was, especially as there are, somewhere, Lord of the Rings gummy snacks--either in England or New Zealand, I can't remember where. And, you know, Doctor Who cereal would be kind of awesome. I'm picturing little round sugared corn cereal bits with TARDIS-shaped marshmallows, or something. The sad thing is, I would absolutely buy some, even though my official stand on marketing exploitation is negative, and I would probably hate the taste.
