Congrats to the Glam fam!

I'ma guess that none of those people criticizing you for having too many books were Buffistas. Also, been in my house almost a year, still got a couple of boxes to unpack and most of the unpacked boxes in the shed for recycling.

D is here. We are each on our laptops, alternating playing songs for each other. Of course, I'm playing him Corb Lund right now.

javachik, you are the sweetest. Thank you, friend! I actually don't think I posted here about it, but I could have sworn I had. I blame lack of sleep and pregnancy brain.

I think you must have because I feel like I knew. Huh.

Yesterday, Ryan's childcare/kindergarten's Show and Tell featured the letter D. He brought in some of his dinosaurs, and introduced the other children to Triceratops, Brachiosaurus and Parasaurolophus. On the drive home, for reasons that escape me, he kept repeating to himself "Dilophosaurus, Dilophosaurus".

I'm counting yesterday as a parenting win.

I think you must have because I feel like I knew. Huh.

It's possible I may have missed it, but I specifically remember the planning for trying and the details around those complications....and then waiting to see if the squiggle "took"!

Liese, it is so bright out that I cast clearly delineated shadows when I just walked outside. The stars are muddled from clouds and, I am guessing, humidity but the moon is just bright. And my parents have a telescope they apparently don't use so it gets to come live with me. I am shocked and happy. Partially shocked because they have a telescope? When? But it's awesome that I will be able to use it. So I'm going to focus on that and have myself a telescope.

Of everything, the stars really make the happiest here. Being able to see my dad and be here for my family is (waaaaaaaay) more important but the thing that just randomly, physically makes me happy in this house, way out here, are the stars. It's one thing that the PNW could never give me, the immense sky filled with stars that I grew up with...

On the drive home, for reasons that escape me, he kept repeating to himself "Dilophosaurus, Dilophosaurus".

Because it's AWESOME.

Because it's AWESOME.

He has a toy Dilophosaurus in his dinosaur menagerie, which is itself quite nifty. Nonetheless, we haven't really talked about it and I've only mentioned its name a few times in passing. It's probably just as well we don't swear particularly, given the way this boy soaks up vocabulary.

Aww, Cass, that's great! Yay for telescope! What kind is it?

I love the skies so much. A few days ago we went out because the Apollo 11 site was close to the edge of the lighted bit of the moon and thus easy to find. It's just so *neat*! And I have wallpaper on my laptop that's a picture from Mars! Mars! How cool is the universe? And how cool is it that I live in a time where I can see and experience so much of it. Science!

Congratulations, GC and family!

Ryan is constantly amazing and pretty darn adorable.

Cass, I'm happy for you that you have your stars back.

We landed in PNW...three years ago, in November. We just got our dining room together last year. And managed to finish the new project a couple of weeks ago. The third *big* project? The wall of shelves across the width of the house, the end wall of the living room that faces the street. Till that's done? The family photos, the bibelots, and the *books* are still in boxes. Three.years.

Despair not, fellow owners of boxed books. You are not alone, and things do change.

What kind is it?

I don't even know. I am still super excited. I'm just dorkily happy it'll be better than my eyes. Which is dumb. I wear glasses so most anything is better than my eyes. I'm happy when I can see Jupiter so clearly I don't wonder what I am looking at.

It's just Jupiter.

And awesome.

I'll actually tell you what the telescope is when I have it. And probably ask how to use it. I am guessing they bought something half good and forgot about it. Which is crazy because there are stars Right There. How amazing is that?