WooHoo! I just found out that Medicare is enough to not take the Student Health Care Plan at school. This makes me very relieved, since I was worried that they may not consider it a comporable plan. I just didn't want to be paying for THREE different insurances (Medicare, CommonHealth, Chickering).

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Nora, you're the stuff of which new parents' dreams are made. Really. Awesome gift! And bringing food later, and offering to watch the baby while they run to the store? You ought to go straight to heaven.

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offering to watch the baby while they run to the store?

See, that's a selfish offer, 'cause BABY!!!!!!! Get to smell and hang out with the BABY!!!! Crying babies don't scare me neither.

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Nora, I wish you were MY neighbor.

Back of hand. I believe she was being a dog at the time.

Where Christopher was Kara's age, he spent a few weeks where he would only communicate by barking. His mother took it in stride. It unnerved his grandmother, though.

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Crying babies don't scare me neither.

Right! As long as they're not your own or you don't have them overnight, they're easy, because you can give them back.

Just a selfish thought, a lot of times, when my babies were little, I would have been eternally grateful if, when a neighbor was running to the store, she had said so, and asked if I needed her to pick up anything for me.

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I want Nora to be my neighbor, dang it.

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Nora, that sounds like a great basket of goodies! If these are the kind of people who are going to want to write you a thank-you note, you might want to include a pre-written one with your gift. I do it all the time for new parents -- I write the thank you, address it, put the stamp on and make a little "x" where they sign their names, so they don't have to waste precious baby time.

((Gud))

I'm very sleepy today. We had company last night, and the He of the couple snored all night long.

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I would have been eternally grateful if, when a neighbor was running to the store, she had said so, and asked if I needed her to pick up anything for me.

Ooh, good idea. Will keep that in mind.

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If these are the kind of people who are going to want to write you a thank-you note, you might want to include a pre-written one with your gift. I do it all the time for new parents -- I write the thank you, address it, put the stamp on and make a little "x" where they sign their names, so they don't have to waste precious baby time.

Huh. I get the purpose, but I'm not sure I'd know what to think if I got something like that.

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I want Nora to be my neighbor. I bet she'd bring me muffins because I'm sick. (I've had some kind of low-grade something for a while. Last night it decided to declare itself as a fever and sore throat. A fever makes me whiney and a little whimsical in the brainpan.)

Nora, that's a great gift. One of the most appreciated gifts I ever gave was to a newly married couple in a new apartment. I packed up Christmas for them -- a little tree, ornaments, lights, tea towels and other decorative stuff.

I thought my flat tire was bad last week, but at least I didn't have to deal with it in Greek.

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