Nora--YOUR TENT! The one of Tom with your nephew slays me. Also, I miss the teeniness of a newborn sleeping on my chest. Very cute pics.

The cold, crappy, rainy bitter gray continues here. I'm going to have to make a quick run to Cinci and borrow Ray from Teppy.

The one of Tom with your nephew slays me.

I love the one when Sean is terrorizing Tom with some toy. Hilarious.

Nora--YOUR TENT!

Hee!

ETA: JZ, we were blessed with beautiful weather and lots of mellow joy that week. That picture is taken outside the cutest cheese shop in the world, Crowley's Cheese. Delicious.

Welcome back, P-C!!!

I think I'm staying home, having spent my entire shower waffling between thinking what a fool I'd feel like if I was the only one who didn't try to drive in and imagining all the ways I could crash the car between here and church and failing utterly to come up with an alternate route not involving hills, given that Seattle is like, hilly, and the church is near the top of one of the more impressive ones.

And lest anyone suggest I'm going through some kind of weird religious guilt over skipping church, NO. God has better things to do that smite people who have overactive imaginations about all the ways they can crash their car. I'm just stuck vacillating between thinking, "What if I'm the only one who stays home? I'd feel like an idiot. And this stuff will melt by noon," and the aforementioned vivid imaginings of car crashes.

I think Sean looks a little evil here: [link]

Susan, I think that's wise. If you live somewhere where people aren't used to driving in snow, even a little bit can be dangerous.

Nora! This horse! I had that horse as a little girl. And my DH refurbished it and our kids had it when they were wee. Then I think we donated it to the church nursery--I don't know where it is now. But it was fun seeing it again. I've seen orange ones and blue ones in antiques stores around here, but never the red one that I had.

Oh, but that's besides the adorable kids, and wonderfully attractive grownups. I love the ones of Tom playing on the floor with your nephew.

Hiya, Bitches.

Skimmed, but manymanyMANY hugs for {{{{Cass}}}} and {{{{billytea}}}}.

Wanders over into Beverly and Kristin's corner.

joins the lovely women

Yay! Juliana is in my corner!

snuggles

I had that horse as a little girl.

I also had that horse as a little girl. It was apparently a well-traveled horse. We had it outside and wasps built a nest in it. Then my sister got on it. Much drama ensued. She is fortunately not particularly allergic, but she had many, many stings.

Welcome back, P-C. I assume we'll be getting an account of adventures in India.

Cass, I hope you'll continue to use us to help you get through this. I did the whole soulmate thing myself. To tell you how in sync I was with my ex-husband, I'll note that, after we had been married for several years, we discovered that we had made nearly identical Man From U.N.C.L.E. scrapbooks when we were kids. I eventually came to believe that he had done me a favor by leaving. I was so eager to make him happy that I lost track of what would make me happy.