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Last week, we stopped at the store to get a few items on our list. The kids always have a hard time getting past Target’s Dollar Spot. Nick scored a package of eight mechanical pencils and Madeline? Well, she had a whole handful of stuff I made her whittle down, settling on an Elmo notebook.

Later that night, she was looking for her “iPad.” Did I know where it was? Did Nick take it? Where’s the pen that went with it?

I had no idea what she was talking about, and it took a little while to figure out exactly WHAT we were searching for. You know, since I don’t own an iPad. And speaking of which, she certainly doesn’t either.

She meant the Elmo pad. Of course.

I don’t know where she even heard the phrase iPad since no one I know has one. But ever since then, she has called her Elmo notebook an iPad.

love the poses!

Now there’s a bargain I can live with. You can get your very own iPad in the Dollar Spot of your local Target. I have a feeling it’s the best deal around.

Project 365
March 30, 2011, Photo #88
Today I was feeling very off. Not sick, but a headache, lethargic and nauseous. When we got home, I asked Madeline if we could lie down a bit, and she readily agreed. Then she checked my head. And my stomach. Wrote me a prescription on her iPad. Got me a blanket and a drink. And watched tv quietly so I could rest. And then my nurse fell asleep.

Thank goodness this week’s Eat. Live. Be. topic is a piece of cake, because my To-Do List for the night is ridiculous. And I really just want to go lie down with my remote in one hand, and a smoothie in the other and call it a night.

This week’s topic is all about our go-to lunch. Although I work at an office until noon, I work from home in the afternoon, which gives me a little more flexibility with my lunches (unless I’m meeting a friend, of course). Truth be told, I can be a little like a 17-year-old in a new hot and heavy romance with my lunch patterns. I grasp onto a lunch idea and fixate on it until I’m sick of it. You know, like when you couldn’t get enough of your new, first boyfriend? And then, like that flushed high schooler, I’m done and I’ve moved onto the newest flavor of the week. Such are my lunches.

Lately, my lunches have been fish sandwiches. I honestly am a terrible Catholic when it comes to no meat on Friday. I can go several months without eating meat, but then tell me I can’t and I can’t remember that darn fact until a piece of bacon is in my mouth. I was so proud that I went all day Friday, safely making it through breakfast and lunch without accidentally eating meat. Until we went to the movie theater. And the kids wanted dinner there. And I gave in because once in awhile, it’s ok to throw them a curve ball like eating dinner at the movie theater. So I ordered them chicken fingers. And, of course, it was the next morning as my hand is finding its way to smacking my forehead that I remember … chicken fingers … meat … on meatless Fridays during Lent. I digress. So I have been having fish A LOT lately hoping to just have it enough that it slips into the routine on Fridays too and I forget about my meat issue. Well you can clearly see that theory was flawed.

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iPad Bargains

Eat. Live. Be. #13: My Go-To Lunch