I think it was Plei who correctly identified that feeling of wanting another baby around 10 months as actually wanting this baby for just a little longer. (Of course there are people who have babies that close together, on purpose, but I think for the vast majority of us, it's that we miss our current baby's infant phase, not that we actually want to be pregnant while also chasing a 1 year-old. )

I bought the pumpkin cream cheese this morning

TJs pumpkin cream cheese is amazing. As is their pumpkin Greek yogurt.

I know someone who deliberately spaced her two children 17 months apart. Her first child was one of those incredible babies who sleep through the whoooole night (not just the doctor's definition of "sleeping though the night," which I was very sad to learn was only 5 hours in a row, not that either of my children ever did such a thing anyway) at 6 weeks and she also had a remarkably placid temperament. Second child, yeah, no.

OK, after all the talk of monthly cooking, I'm sort of doing it! Or a lazy single person's version of it, anyway. Currently cooking a potato-kale gratin, roasting leftover butternut squash I'm going to make into soup, and defrosting tomato sauce to put in some strombolis I'm going to make with dough I also bought at TJ's. Oh, and I'm going to make an apple crisp next. Seasonal!

Jesse, that sounds delicious! I'm so happy it's finally soup season.

not just the doctor's definition of "sleeping though the night,"

Yeah, I'm still mad about that, by the way. 5 hours = "the night" MY ASS.

My kids were the opposite of that. #1 didn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time until we Ferberized him at 10 months. #2 started sleeping 10 hours straight at 5 months with no parental intervention whatsoever. (#1 also gave up naps at 18 months, meanwhile #2 has been asleep for almost 3 hours this afternoon.)

#1 didn't sleep more than 2 hours at a time until we Ferberized him at 10 months.

Oh god. Two hours? That's just miserable.

Rose is actually a pretty good sleeper, which I fear means that our next kid will never sleep at all.

Everyone can hate me, but all my kids slept well. It's not impossible. Caveat: I didn't breastfeed, though, which probably has something to do with it.

so realtor apparently went to the house and the furnace will not come on. he supposedly tried every trick in the book.

he also said the water was on for the washing machine and he is going to have a handyman look at it.

I do not get what is going on. HVAC company will take a look at the furnace, so we will see.

Ugh, le nubian. What a pain in the ass!