Kathy, there's definitely a tradition of not anticipating a baby until after it's born, lest anything bad happen -- it's not so much a religious rule as a superstition/taboo, but you may want to err on the side of caution. The standard workaround is to keep what baby gifts you get in advance at someone else's house, but depending on her sensitivities, having something called a baby shower before the birth may still feel taboo-ish to her. Maybe a going-on-leave party that's more focused on her, with instructions that people can send baby gifts after? Or alternately, a party after the baby comes home.
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My cleaning list is getting some good strikethru's. Still a bit to do, but I'm getting some holiday blues. I wish I had something to open. Selfish, yeah?
we need to clean. and do the laundry. and repot some plants.
But really, we're going to Pain Quotidien to have breakfast breads.
Allyson, you want to come over for dinner? porkchops, potatoes. cake.
and we'll wrap something for you to open.
I do dislike when people won't accept calls from undisplayed numbers. I guess I dislike more the reasons they have to, but still.
I'm standing on line at Target with my last resent. It's crowded, but not soul-crushingly so.
with my last resent
Great typo.
I do dislike when people won't accept calls from undisplayed numbers.
I've never answered an "unknown caller" that wasn't a telemarketer. So I stopped. I figure, if it's a real person, they can leave a message and I'll call them back.
I'm standing on line at Target with my last resent. It's crowded, but not soul-crushingly so.
You are such a geek. I adore that.
Me, I need to go shower and pack so we can drive to Providence, where I'll wait the two or three hours until my flight, and finally get into Michigan sometime after 11, forcing my mother and brother to leave the Christmas Eve service to come get me. Actually, there's no good reason my mother should have to come too; she just seems to want to. Meanwhile, I'm jealous about missing one of the two really fun church services (Christmas Eve and Easter -- there's a brass band!).
