And I'm sure Edward VII (is it VIII?) is jealous as anything wherever he is.

Connie, that is precisely what I thought. Well, I couldn't remember the number, so I just thought "Edward" but close to the same!

Morning.

Sleep = good.

Y'know, I hear this rumour, but I don't have enough hard evidence to be sure. I should consider this sleep thing, more than a few hours at a time.

I think the Charles and Camilla thing is kind of closure to 20+ years of pain and backroom politics and a pile of other stuff. Too many thoughts for something with little practical application to my own life.

I should consider this sleep thing, more than a few hours at a time.

You really should. You may wake up refreshed and ready to face the day.

Although, I have yet to find that happen without a cup of coffee, but I've heard it's possible.

Somebody kick my butt into gear. I need to get writing my paper for incomplete #3.

::kicks vw::

Why don't I have coffee? I need to have a talk with my coffee fetchers. They're obviously slacking off.

I needed to be here for the religion discussion. Instead, I went to a "Morning for Mothers" group thing that someone at the embassy hosts, and it turned out to be Jesus-focused Bible study. It was very uncomfortable...I'd been led to believe it was a place to network with other expat mothers about child-raising things. And I guess it was, if by "child-raising things" you mean "obey your spouse and pray."

My boundary issues with religion are just a big too touchy to deal with this - I'm cool with anyone believing what they want, but I really get uncomfortable when people start assuming that everyone around them believes as they do. And don't even get me started on proselytizing, which is where it looked like this was going.

So, avoidance and if necessary, a "Thank you but I'm really not interested" and hope like heck they don't press me to attend, so I can avoid saying something smart-ass and unhelpful.

Ah...see, I always know I can count on Nicole for a good kick in the pants!

Oh, Raquel, ick. That sucks even more because it would be nice to have a group of moms that you could relate to where you're at. Isolation as a new mom can take a toll.

Although my friend here had to bow out of her moms group because it just wasn't a good fit for her, either--so it happens. And not just because of religion.

Owen and I haven't really had any group type things but I'm enjoying the interaction with other moms at our sign language class and I'm hoping to network with some other local moms when we start a romper room thing offered by our parks & rec dept. next week.

How's the sign language going? I've meant to ask. Did you know sign before, or are you learning also? Are you doing ASL or baby-specific signs?

It's going very well. Owen pays close attention (and usually laughs when I sign to him). But it could take a long time before he signs back. We're using Baby signs--which is based on ASL but modified for babies dexterity. I've never used signs before so I'm trying to learn all the signs I think we'll use.

Cool - we're planning on trying it, and I was wondering if it was something that babies would pay attention to. Sounds like Owen's into it!