Wishing all the best for you and mac, msbelle.

Reading about Murrican provisions for/battles with healthcare, pregnancy and so on just makes me shake my head. But then, we're all borderline commies over here....

Are daycare prices in SF/NYC exceptional even for the States? 'Cos we'd be paying less than a fifth of the rates JZ mentioned for all-day nursery here. Ouch.

Our school district has a plan for before and after daycare (all day when there is a no school day) that runs $285 a month per child. All day care from a legit provider otherwise runs in the area of $500 a month I think.

I love watching the hivemind at work.

In less important , but still very annoying insurance news, I finally got the new cards and went to pick up a few drugs. One denied.

In more fun news -- the niles-centerville little league ( senior division) will be playing in the finals for the little league world series. They just won their 5th game. I keep getting these detailed posts on our local egroup.

Are daycare prices in SF/NYC exceptional even for the States? 'Cos we'd be paying less than a fifth of the rates JZ mentioned for all-day nursery here. Ouch.

We paid something like $380 a week for infant care in Seattle.

I was paid $300/week for full time 9-5 (summer) for three elementary aged kids,12 years ago in Greensboro.

I've marked the first post with links for me. THANK YOU! something for me to plow through, but not right now. I can almost physically feel myself coming down from the last three days. I don't feel ready or able to quite deal with a drop and let it all out - it's not time yet for that, but I think my shoulders are separating from my head.

msbelle, has your dad arrived yet?

he got in around midnight last night. Already another body here is AMAZINGLY helpful.

msbelle, I hope things begin to fall into place for the two of you.

Kate P., happy moving day (tomorrow)! Go to the Station Inn for me when you're settled in your new hometown!

Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich in.

The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the draft has “nothing about liberals,” the Houston Chronicle reported:

The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies Since Reconstruction says students should be expected “to identify significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority.” [...] Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the National Rifle Association.

The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans, is expected to vote along party lines. Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing “experts” produced a report urging the committee to remove biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead add history about the “motivational role the Bible and the Christian faith played in the settling of the original colonies.”