What kind?

Parisian Chocolate kind. [link]

drools

I'll take 'Items you don't want to receive as hand-me-downs' for $400, Alex.

Coz if you do, it was clearly defective.

Two new Lily pictures up to mark 5 months.

That smile time photo--she's plotting something. I'd be worried. I'm torn as to who she resembles more. Some photos, I think she's all Paul but with your beautiful eyes. Then, it smacks me how much she looks like you.

What Cashmere said about Lily. I looked at the top picture, and thought, "My word, that's Paul shrunken down, and put in pink jammies," and then the next picture she was all Plei.

Em is too too cute. And knowing, what a knowing little face she has. The picture Ginger linked is the one that most struck me too, because she looks smitten. I don't know if MM or Aimee took the picture, but I remember my kids looking at me like that--like I was their own true love. Such a melty expression.

I loved the second-to-the-last picture of Em! And Lilybean with holding her head up! The fifth month was great with Mal, Plei - I hope you guys enjoy Lily during hers.

I may have mentioned here that due to an embassy error, it looked like we were going to have to pay out of pocket for the hospital, rather than our insurance paying for it, and then on top of that reimburse the government for the $20,000 they sent to cover the hospital charges until the insurance money came through. It appears to have worked out; we paid $850, which is a lot better than $20K+.

The Greek employee who was responsible for the mistake was fired, though. Not our goal in this, but she'd apparently made a lot of other mistakes that had cost the embassy tens of thousands of dollars, and this was the capper.

She showed back up to work the next day. She just couldn't believe that she'd been fired; she didn't really get what it meant. According to some of the other Greek employees, who were telling me about this, there's no cultural background for it - nobody ever gets fired here.

SUCH amazing and beautiful babies and children we have here. I just adore the pictures. Keep them coming!

Oh, Raq, I'm so glad that that got figured out for MUCH less money. Craziness. Interesting cultural stuff too.

I just finished my Pros/Cons list for the jobs. Looks like I'll probably be taking the Research Assistant position that I was offered yesterday and letting down the Center for Women in Politics and Public Policy. I'm going to talk to my therapist about this list at 11:30am today. I'm e-mailing her the lists, then we're touching base.

I really have a wonderful therapist. I'm always worried about crossing boundaries, but she really seems to enjoy working with me, partially because I want to/and will do the work.

They've opened up a Whole Foods here in town. Looks like Owen and I are taking a field trip tomorrow to check it out.

Heh, my sister got the announcement flyer and was reading when I was on the phone with her a couple weeks ago. It sounds extremely fancy-schancy, even more so than the ones I've been to. I told her to bring cash, and leave all debit/credit cards in the car.

I told her to bring cash, and leave all debit/credit cards in the car.

We don't call it Whole Paycheck for nothin'.

We don't call it Whole Paycheck for nothin'.

Heh. The area of town is very chi-chi. Mayhap I should change out of the stained, cropped sweat pants I'm wearing before I go? Naaaah. Owen looks cute enough for both of us.