sarameg, I *love* your earring rack! How long is it? Did you buy it as an earring rack? Or was it amended from something else?

Oh, those earrings are fabulous--all three pairs. I love the blue sea glass ones, and the yellow round ones. But the sparkly starry ones are my favorites.

Happy birthday, Suzi!

I bought the perfect Katie Valentine's gift -- a baseball wallet from j. petermen.

I had a shitty terrible mom moment. We went to Ikea and promised to check with Noah to see if he were tall enough for the ball pit, which he has been yearning for. We measured him before we went up for dinner. And he was barely tall enough, but he did make it. Then when he had his shoes off, he was too short. But he was all ready to go.

Oh he was heartbroken, but he didn't have a fit, which was impressive. I made it up to him by buying a DK Star Wars/Lego book.

Aww Noah. But yes, not having the meltdown is impressive.

I'll take a picture of the whole thing. My mom got it at a fair up in Santa Fe or Ruidoso. It's awesome. I'm going to need another soon.

Mom knows my love of seaglass (collected a lot at Port Bou in Spain, years ago.)

Give me a minute to upload.

Oh he was heartbroken, but he didn't have a fit, which was impressive. I made it up to him by buying a DK Star Wars/Lego book.

Awesome, Little Man! That's hard to recover from. Those books rock, though. We have several. Probably five or six.

Ah, Noah.

Bev: [link] please everyone ignore the card floating on the posts and the pencil marks on the wall. I keep meaning to erase that and then forget.

sara, you have an amazing collection of earrings.

That's a really cool rack, sara.

Poor Noah! Way to rally, buddy.

Thank you, aurelia!

All my mom. Honestly, the few pairs I've gotten myself, I am so much more ambivalent about (not counting the Nepal ones. Those I channeled Mother and it worked.)

Aww... I keep waiting for someone to say, "Nice rack, sara!"