oh! and I also included a card that said that if they needed a break, even to run to the store or 20 minutes to take a shower, just knock on our door and we could hold/watch/bounce/entertain the baby if we were home.

I'm sure that won't come into play for a month or so though.

cereal to say, I am so excited to have a baby in the house! Especially since it is not in MY part of the house! Bliss.

Many sympathies, Nicole.

Did I do OK?

Nora, what you did sounds like what my mother used to do for wedding showers. She'd buy a kitchen wastebasket and fill it with little kitchen necessaries -- a potato peeler, a paring knife, etc. In other words, stuff that you need if you're furnishing your first home, but nobody's going to buy as a gift because any one item on its own is a pretty cheap gift.

I've always thought it was a great idea.

I'm trying to find a couple baby gifts myself. There's this sense that we should send something Greek, but there's hardly any specifically Greek stuff for babies. I'm sending both babies these onesies or shirts I make, [link] but having trouble finding other stuff. I got the little boy some tiny athletic shoes that say "Hellas" on them, and I got the little girl days-of-the-week bibs in Greek, but I need a little more.

Nora, what you did sounds like what my mother used to do for wedding showers. She'd buy a kitchen wastebasket and fill it with little kitchen necessaries -- a potato peeler, a paring knife, etc. In other words, stuff that you need if you're furnishing your first home, but nobody's going to buy as a gift because any one item on its own is a pretty cheap gift.

I love these sorts of gifts. I'm big on them. For high school graduations I buy a laundry basket and fill it with Tide, Bounce, quarters, mac and cheese, Ramen, Mountain Dew, towels, and anything else I think the individual person might like. It's quite a fun gift, and very useful.

Raq, can you repost the link to your shirts? It's trying to sign me in as you.

Nora, if you take dinner over, you might want to -- if it's not too much trouble -- make something like a pan of lasagne that's more than one meal's worth of entree and can refrigerate/freeze well, so that they can pull stuff out of the freezer and fling it in the microwave when things are crazy.

Of course, I also hit myself in the back of the head with it, and in the ass a couple of times, too.

I wish I had this part on video.

Keep on wishing, 'bot.

2. I want to be sure that talking with her won't always be a sparring match.

billytea, is it sparring in a bad way? Or a banter-y way? Or do you just really dislike that type of badinage? Because, frankly, banter-y verbal sparring is, in fact, a form of flirting; one I engage in as often as possible.

Ok, maybe a little bit doomed.

Hmm. I dectect some smitten-ness. Smitten is good. Yes.

you might want to -- if it's not too much trouble -- make something like a pan of lasagne that's more than one meal's worth of entree and can refrigerate/freeze well, so that they can pull stuff out of the freezer and fling it in the microwave when things are crazy.

What I planned to do was put it in freezer safe individual packages that can be pulled out and tossed in the microwave one-handed. I did that for my cousin's housewarming (she never cooks) and it worked out pretty well.

What I planned to do was put it in freezer safe individual packages that can be pulled out and tossed in the microwave one-handed.

That's a great idea. New baby time is crazy schedule-wise.

Ugh. Going to be a bad day today.

{{{Gud}}}