Cindy, I hope you've taken some Tylenol or something for the pain. This incident should go into Christopher's "I owe Mom BIG TIME" guilt account.

Annabel needs a dingo snack t-shirt!

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Skip the tylenol -- take an anti inflammatory.

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Hi.

Healing~ma for Cindy's nose and for the relatives recovering from surgery.

Thanks for the birthday wishes, belated or not, they were good to read. I was very low-energy this weekend so I didn't actually do anything for my birthday (unless ordering Chinese delivery counts as doing something) or for V-day. My poor husband hsa gootten the idea that Valentine's Day is Very Important because a couple of years ago (when V-Day was on a Friday) I had had a very bad week in which I had to take a test in teh evening on my birthday and missed all the phone calls from my family and had no presents arrive and no celebration whatsoever and he got stuck working late on Friday and when he called to say he was finally coming home he said "I had planned to get you flowers but I think I'll just come straight home" and I burst into tears. So ever since then I always get flowers. But even with all that baggage, this year he could see that I didn't want to make a big deal and we could just share a steak and watch 24.

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And, Lilty, when my family is gathered in Maine this summer, you can take us all on... watch out for my mother, she may look like a nice, gray haired old lady, but she's a card-sharp!

Uh oh, I'm not that great at The Game, much to my parents dismay. Mebbe I'll have to brush up with the barflies.

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this year he could see that I didn't want to make a big deal and we could just share a steak and watch 24.

that's a good husband

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If there is, it's not someone who's made it public knowledge. I think that's everyone who has mentioned it.

Thanks, Plei. I take it I got your due date right?

Burrell, -t, Raquel, Nonian, when are your babies due?

You need to keep your guard up around little kids. They will whack you in the face. I watched EM get hit repeatedly by Baby!Emmett and she always looked surprised.

Oh, yeah. This is not the first time. Usually, my nose has been battered by their big, honkin' heads, which you think would hurt worse, than a book, but no. It was just the edge of one cover. He was swinging it around, pretending he was going into the book, or leaving the book, or something.

I was surprised that I was angry with him. I didn't react, other than to tell him to leave me alone for a few minutes, but I really felt angry. I don't know if I ever really get angry with my children. They can, have do, and will probably continue to annoy me, but this was different. I may still be sticking my tongue out at him, behind his back--or would be, if I was the kind of person to do such a thing--which I totally am...not.

Speaking of EM, she looked *awful* last night. She had an allergic reaction to something - probably from going through Tilden Park over the weekend - and three-quarters of her face was engulfed in a red rash, and one eye was swollen shut. Poor thing. Looked like she'd been dragged face first through poison oak.

Oh, the poor woman. Was she going to see a doctor? That's not good.

I saw your commute time from last night, Hec. All I can say is OHMYTHAT'SAWFUL.

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Yep. That's my EDD.

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That's the nose breaker's birthday. Preggeat emptor.

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Usually, my nose has been battered by their big, honkin' heads

Oh man, little kid heads are like getting hit by a mace.

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They can, have do, and will probably continue to annoy me, but this was different.

Getting a good crack and feeling that kind of pain can bring anger as a knee-jerk response, I think. You can't help but want to stick your tongue out at the inflictor.

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