Annabel has the sniffles, to the point Dylan may have to stay home with her tomorrow rather than spend most of the day with a friend of mine as originally planned, lest she infect the friend's toddler.

I'm starting to get an itchy nose and a tickle in my throat. In the next 48 hours of my life, I will be A) very busy, and B) very much in the public eye, including speaking in front of 150 people or so. And I don't do well with most cold medicines, since sudafed makes me jittery, with galloping heart.

Nooooooooo!!!!!!

t pops vitamin C candy like, well, candy

I got a small box of stuff that was my grandma's today. There was a gorgeous heart-shaped Wedgewood bowl, a Disney bracelet, a lace handkerchief, and a letter that I wrote to her when I was 6. It was nice to get it all.

I missed -t again! Bummer.

Gloomcookie, that sounds lovely. I'm glad you got those few pieces to help you remember her.

More Anne {{{{}}}}s.

Why, oh why am I up at 4am? This does not bode well for the day.

Gloomcookie, that's so sweet!

I'm waiting for the baby to fall asleep, and he's apparently waiting for hell to freeze over.

Awwww...come on, Mal! Sleep for your mom!

That seems to have worked, vw! You're hired!

Now I'm going to get a quick nap myself, as it's a busy afternoon: grocery store to stock up for the weekend, then the babysitter gets here at 5:00. Robert scored us VIP tickets to the Titanic exhibit, so we'll go see that, and then we are meeting a friend from Moldova for dinner.

Should be fun for us, but poor Mallory has decided he hates the babysitter, so I don't envy him or her.

When my grandmother died I got, among other things, a packet of all the letters I ever wrote her.

Plei, when you look at daycares I'd ask them about scheduled feedings and how comfortable they are with expressed breastmilk. I think they should be able to manage. I would recommend sending many small bottles - as little as 2oz each - so you don't have waste. The book "Nursing Mother Working Mother" has a lot of good advice. Be prepared for Lily's feeding habits to be different with someone else than they are with you, or to change when she goes into care. Eve never drank more than 12oz of expressed milk in an 8-9 hour day, but then, she was nursing all night long.

vw, if it helps any, I'm up at 4am. On purpose. Just eating breakfast then will be heading out the door to gt to the office by 5.

Susan, I hope it is just a tickle. Vitamin C and lots of fluids...

Hope you have a fun evening, Raq! Glad my demand on little Mal worked :).

Poor Maidengurl. No one should have to be up at that ungodly hour. And then to work? Craziness! I mean, I know why you do it, but I certainly don't envy you.

I just paged my therapist to help decide what I'm going to do today. I hate this.

If you were four-years-old, would you think this was a cool prezzie from your Auntie Val? [link] and [link]