It's memorial day? oops, guess i'm not going to upstate ny for the memorial day party.

Wants to play more music and watch fewer bad 60s scifi movies, even though the latter's (sometimes) fun and the former takes extra energy.

You can be my friend, but you have to work extra hard to get into my tiramisu club

Brandenburg 6 soloist barefoot unshowered and awesome?

You know you really love someone and that they really love you back when you spend the evening in the basement together bailing water with 5gallon buckets (and 2lb yogurt containers) when the water tank bursts, and only loving words are said the whole time.

Keith gave me the weirdest book of short stories to read, and I find they are so weird that I can only read them in small doses.

Brandenburg 6 is the world's most beautiful viola joke.

I have such a huge overbite that I have to eat half of any sandwich upside-down. (No I wont get that orthodontically fixed.)

It's almost time for my first trip back to the gym, but I keep putting it off in f(l)avor of ice-cream.

There is no need for words today - but i sure am having fun learning new ones by reading silly fluff short stories about really angsty thirty year old socialite women.

a special thank you to the lady who was really nice about me backing into her car (twas but a tap) in the ultra-dark parking garage, and also a special un-thank you to ALL the people in Boston who don't use their turn signals.

It took three days to (unrelatedly) read slaughterhouse five and watch 2001 a space odyssey, but they both were wonderful and exceeded expectations, which is rare for me - even when i have the lowest of low expectations, which i didn't in this case.

Today at the gym one of the trainers said to me, "you are a lot tougher than you look" and I'm still trying to decide if that was a complement or not.

Thought everyone would like a bonus picture for today, to introduce Henry ... and don't worry, not every post from now on will be about babies.

Best compliment ever (from a mom who sees me every week) "You are the skinniest pregnant lady ever!" (err, I had the baby last week)

After dropping my bother and sister off in the woods where they could continue their hike of the Appalachian Trail, we drove out on a windy, bumpy road and as soon as we got back on pavement, I got car sick for the first time in over 15 years... which resulted in lot of laughter by all (including myself) about 5 minutes later.

Adjusting to having four people in our family is trickier with a sick one year old instead of a healthy one - you didn't think we'd be getting any sleep, did you?

I didn't take a single picture of anything today... so much for the resolve to get a picture a day of the new baby.

Donuts for breakfast and a resolution to be healthy from now on for lunch mean we had a walk for dinner.

I was able to give my courageous brother and sister a hug for the first time in months and it felt so good!

An unnamed baby boy joined my family just before one in the morning, and by four in the afternoon we were safe in our own home.

Okay, go go go
sleep
and dream
of happy things
like hula-hoops
and diamond rings
have a good snooze
if it suites youzzz

Loved having dinner with Keith and Alison, though it was the first time that I initiated the drive home, and none too early, since I may have gone into labor on the way back (don't know for sure).

My right leg is getting a little mushy... I really need to be more committed to my leg raise exercises everyday!

My mom crocheted and sent Theo the most amazing stuffed turtle that we cuddled with tonight as he fell asleep.

Met a new student today, and his mom says "When is your due date? I am so worried about his orchestra concert next week." (too little, too late?)

Left-overs from the world's largest pizza (24 inches in diameter) made for a tasty lunch in the sun with my favorite person.

Got home last night to find that my ($25) computer doesn't even pretend to turn on anymore, so posts may be sporadic... but I'll try when I can.

Even though I still can't do too much in the way of helping out, I was so glad to give my mom a big hug of thanks for all the love she has shown me throughout my life and especially in these recent weeks.

Two gigantic concerts, a rehearsal, several hours of driving, and eating nothing but junk food all day sounds like suuuch a healthy Mother's day, but at least Theo brought me a dandelion this morning with a kiss.

A day of sun and love and family and good food and laughter and ocean... what could be better?

almost all the way to a little party get-together we find out that we missed an email and a phone call cancelling the event ( :( ) so we walked around a lovely lake in the pouring rain instead ( :) )

An "All American" afternoon entails a walk down the road to the flowering park passing quaint homes with picket fences and a park bench over-looking a small lake and a view of a baseball game, while the neighbors stop to say hello, an ice cream truck drives by playing the old familiar tune that has kept kids running for decades and an old couple stops to take a picture of the two of us sitting hand in hand with our charming dog resting at our feet.

brian's last day at bae, no kidding, and now he stays at home till the first of next month and boy are we looking forward to the new things happening for the rest of may.

News of a visitor tomorrow is making my day!

It rained on me only today, and it wasn't sad at all, but rather, really beautiful ... in a parking lot, with beautiful blossoming trees all around and a big storm cloud in the distance and the sun shining brightly in a blue sky above me, and full out raindrops falling on my head.

Getting over a pretty boring but debilitating sickness, thankfully with a little help from my devoted and wonderful family.

birthday day - she really makes "sweet sixteen" true.

One of the things that I forgot to pack when I left Boston was pajamas so I have been borrowing t-shirts from my mom's closet... tonight, I am an orange jack-o-lantern!

stayed up sooo late (to wish labeeby many happy returns of the day) playing lots of music, and with lots of girl talk.

A(n unintentionally politically charged) concert today included a reading of Mark Twain's "War Prayer" (recommended reading!) and a comparison of war between nations to man's "war on animals" (not a recommended comparison for those people wishing to be taken seriously).

someone called me today, and accidentally told me another person had "leukemia" instead of "lyme disease" ... while the latter is no picnic, the former is just a little different.