10.5 hours of work today. Am flopped at home. DH and K-Bug are taking CJ to my dad's for me. He is spending the night and then going to the Tacktile Dome at the Exploratorium tomorrow. I'm such a bad daughter for not taking CJ myself so I can see my dad.

Lee - I slept in until noon yesterday. So I missed out on see y'all, but I also missed out on a sunburn, so yay?

What airport do you fly out of, sj?

Providence.

I have nothing to say about infant and toddler nutrition. 2-3 pages should be a breeze for me.

According to www.kayak.com, United has a $335 flight in that time period, sj. The fall sales haven't kicked in, though. If it were me, I'd keep checking back for an under-$300 fare until four weeks out, because the odds are that airlines are going to be drumming up business because of the recent unpleasantness.

Thanks, Ginger. I will keep looking. I really appreciate everyone being so helpful.

Can anyone Nilly me the article over the problem with the picture of the breastfeeding child on the cover of the parenting magazine from a few weeks ago?

ETA: Nevermind. Found it.

ETA2: Paper done with 1 hour and 15 minutes to spare. Night!

Thank you all so much for the help on the baby registry / basic lists of What Babies (And Their Adults) Need.

I just got home from Pamela's. Julia is wonderful and amazing. We created a baby registry, designed and ordered the baby announcements, ordered some pictures of the happy family to enclose in the announcement, worded an email annoucement for those who might not realize that P and DH were planning to adopt, chose colors for the baby's room, held, fed and snuggled the wee one and generally fawned over her and hung out.

The posts here were an enormous help and Pamela wanted to be sure I thanked you all. Buffista advice and suggestions are gold star to her (and me, but this isn't about me) and she really appreciated all of the help.

I think I am going back over there tomorrow. I am such the happy aunt today.

When I left, Pamela and her DH were sitting and just in awe of their new daughter. I admit I cried a little again. They have wanted this so badly and are going to be wonderful parents.

DAMMIT! I just found a craigslist listing for a little tikes activity garden and I'll bet it's already sold. *sigh* I've been looking for one of those things for over a YEAR.

Bessie the carpod was working when I drove home.

Now, NSM.

Sad.

Poor Bessie. More importantly, poor Lee. Smelling salts?

Chocolate?

I'm told I shouldn't buy a new one right now too, since they are coming out with new shiny ones in a few weeks.

I think I may need methadone by then.