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another small update

I'm writing multiple stories right now with a nursling who sometimes lets me write. They are slowly coming, but, emphasis on the word slowly.

Margot is a delicious baby. She smiles, she's nursing, she's happy, and she has the most adorable cupid bow mouth and wide eyes. She does indeed look like a cute human lemur.

Madeline went to the orthopedist on Tuesday and after crying through six x-rays was cleared for regular 5 year old activities. Her arm is healed, new bone nicely grown over the fracture, and climbing restored for my happy little monkey. She uses her arm more and more each day and is glad to not have that cast anymore.

House -  we've cleaned :) And entertained. And cleaned some more. Our windows should go back in the stairwell sometime in the next week or two. We're getting ready for the next stage of work right now, money showing up sometime in the next week or so for some massive changes.  We have to get as much as possible done by the end of the year (tax credits) so we're piling it on for ourselves and others right now.

and then there's this.

Harris and I got married on Friday night. You may or may not have realized we weren't married. We were waiting for Marriage Equality to come to North Carolina before we did. Friday at about 5:45 I saw the news, then saw that Wake County was staying open late issuing marriage licenses. So we scarfed down some dinner and drove out there to get our license. We then came back to Durham and had Bruce and Michael officially witness our marriage while Madeline and Margot looked on. Madeline was very happy that she got to see us get married - vibrating with excitement - and asked us to kiss again to make it official because she missed the first kiss.

And I totally agree with Sara. This year we've done everything and backwards.

More details to come. Happy stories of a life that tempts the gods with happiness.


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