7 Quick Takes Friday (Take 50)

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I feel like almost every week, I start my Quick Takes with prayer requests for friends and family members with health problems.  This week is no different.  I posted a prayer request yesterday.  In short, would you pray for my mom because her doctor thinks her thyroid cancer has returned and spread to her lymph nodes?  If you want to read more about her situation, you can here.

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As you’re reading this, I’m in Atlanta.  Lucia and I flew out yesterday to be with my best friend who is having surgery today.  It’s only a minor outpatient surgery, but she’s just moved here in the fall for grad school and I didn’t want her to be without someone to care for her if she needs it.  She should be feeling better in a few days and is planning to take me and Lucia to some places around the city. 

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My best friend and I met in high school, although we were only friendly acquaintances at the time.  We became very close while on a trip to Europe right after high school graduation.  She moved out of state for college a few months later and we’ve never lived in the same place since, except for a few summers during college when she’s stayed with her parents.  In fact, since I moved to North Carolina and she moved to Georgia last summer, this is the first time we’ve even lived in the same time zone (which makes phone calls much more convenient).  I don’t get to see her very often, and when I do, it’s usually not for very long, so I’m really looking forward to spending time with her.

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We think Lucia is starting to teethe.  She’s been much more irritable lately and especially difficult to put to sleep.  She’s been putting her fingers in her mouth every chance she gets and is drooling like a faucet.  It didn’t even occur to me that she could be teething this early, but David picked up on the signs (even though he’s never been around a teething or read any baby books about it).  We looked in the baby books and it sure seems like that’s what is going on.  I was hoping we’d have a few more months before we had to worry about that.

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On that note, what are your favorite products, tips, and tricks for a teething baby?  It seems like there are so many teethers out there (and many seem ridiculously expensive) that I just don’t know where to start.  (I love the Sophie The Giraffe Teether - any thoughts on it?  Is it worth the price?)  She only just turned three months so she is too young for many of the tricks I’ve read involving food (like frozen fruits in those mesh bags).

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I read this interesting article about "How Some Kids with a Van are Changing the Pro-Life Movement".  I think this was a really beautiful idea and that it should be more widely spread.  Any ideas of how we do this?

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I read this blog post from Andrea at Running with Perseverance the other day and just had to pass it on.  I love being a stay-at-home wife and mother, it’s what I’ve always wanted, but sometimes I struggle telling other people what I do.  What I do isn’t valued highly by our society and sometimes I get caught up in that.  Andrea said exactly what I needed to hear, exactly when I needed to hear it.  I may not do anything noteworthy by the world’s standards, but just try to say that what I do doesn’t mean the world to this little girl:

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