  In the gap between real life and blog life, the end result of things tends to get left out. Here are the resolutions to cliffhangers I accidentally left behind. 1. urlLink Ellie's eye is healing nicely, just the appearance of a little eye shadow remains. 2. I succeeded at my urlLink "cheater" version of sourdough bread. 3. urlLink Aidan's Penis has completely healed. 4. urlLink The Mothers Day/Oral library project is strangely on hold b/c, even though I sent everything 2-day mail, nobody has received their packages yet. Talk about anti-climactic. I'm a little worried about the money I spent putting it all together, but I try to keep faith in our USPS. 5. We never have gone back to urlLink the Montrose library . 6. urlLink The flea issue is still active.
We no longer keep the AC at 65. It did help dent the population, but it didn't kill the larvae already in eggs, who otherwise waited until temps drifted back up. We do sweep almost every day. John wants to buy a urlLink Roomba to help win the war. I don't know if that would be the answer, or if he's just using this as an excuse to get cool gadgets. With him, it's usually the latter. We've never bought a vaccuum, so he might get his way. The flea population has been sincerely decimated, but every few days there's a new hatching somewhere in the house and we see a few jumping around again. I read this week that the daily sweeping paired with letting a cat or dog into the house for an hour once a day would get them to leave.
I also found a microbial called Nemotodes that eats flea larvae but doesn't appear to harm humans. It's only recommended for outdoor use, I can't tell if that's b/c most people don't like the idea of worms living in their home. I personally prefer tiny worms you can't even see over blood-sucking siphonapteras. Fleas are far less pesky than mosquitoes, which we're about to be surrounded by since Hurricane season starts in a few weeks. If only mosquitoes ate fleas. 7. Ellie hasn't urlLink had a tantrum this month. I shouldn't jinx it, but maybe she's grown out of them? I heard my neighbors took their 17-month-old daughter to the ER in the middle of the night this week with symptoms that sound just like Ellie's tantrums.
The strange thing is the doc sent them home with no illness found only after running all sorts of tests and taking blood. Either the doctor's never seen a tantrum-throwing kid, or I'm underestimating how frightening that baby's body throwing episode appeared. 8. We did urlLink switch to fructose-sweetened ketchup , and we're so happy with the switch that we can't believe we took so long to do it!
We have no qualms letting Aidan dip away, and I even prefer the stuff myself. 9. Finally, and this is the saddest to blog, we clearly did not end up fostering, or even adopting urlLink the baby girl who brushed against our lives. It was a great experience for us though, b/c we now know that given a sudden decision of whether to add another child to our family, we said yes. Even when we knew that child probably had mental deficits and physical health issues, we felt honored that God would give us one more baby to love.
After it became clear the possibility was closed, we were left with a lot of questions. Did our quick yes mean we want more kids? Otherwise, I feel pretty anxious to get on with my professional life. Maybe we'll adopt later, after I get some professional progress under my belt. Having two kids is _a lot_ more difficult than having one, but I have heard from other parents that adding one or two more after two isn't such a leap. Ask me again how I feel in a year. 
