Random stuff

• We came home to no Internet, which is why the blog has been dark for several days. Bah! Obviously, it’s back now.

• Speaking of blogging, check out this Post article about clergy-blogs, featuring one of the RevGals!

• I’m thinking about growing out my hair.

Vacation Wrapup

• We left Maine Saturday morning at 7:30 and got home at 9:30 p.m. Not bad at all. The day even included a nice stopover in rural CT to visit my cousin and her family. C got to play with her cousin L and it broke up the trip very well. Beats the drive-thru!

• It was much easier doing the trip in one day. But taking two days to go up was probably a good decision, since we weren’t leaving as early, we still would’ve had mid-week NYC rush hour to deal with, and we just didn’t know how the girls would do in the car.

• I have some post-trip laundry to do, but not too much. We did laundry throughout the week at the cottage. I am sure it was the first time the girls had worn clothes dried on a clothesline. Fresh!

• Having Internet access is actually not bad on vacation. It’s nice not coming back to hundreds of work e-mails. I was able to read and delete a few of them each day, yet I didn’t have thoughts of work creeping into my vacationing mind much at all.

The divine miss m

• M enjoyed the vacation a lot. She got passed around a lot and had fun paddling in the lake with her tree-trunk legs in her little yellow baby raft. But she is thrilled to be home and is back to her normal, sunny, sleeping self. She is in the midst of a 90-minute nap right now. Thank goodness! I think the 45-minute nap, waking upset phase is over for now.

• I took her to the doctor for her six-month visit this morning. She’s 19 1/2 pounds and 28 inches long. I told R that the nurse wrote “100 percentile” on her chart, and he said, “So she’s the biggest baby in the world?!” She had a fever of unknown origin—100.7 degrees. Everything’s clear—no ear infection or anything else, but it did allow her to dodge her shots for a few more days.

Little she-who-is

• It is SO much fun to see C and M interact with one another. This morning R and I were getting ready and C & M were playing in our room. C would disappear behind the door and then pop out and say, “I’m gonna getcha! I’m gonna getcha! I’m gonna getcha!” and M would chortle with delight.

• Mamala met us at the house on Saturday night and took care of the girls Sunday morning so R and I could sleep in. I slept until 10:30, which I haven’t done in years. She told us about C playing “Daddy’s work” in which she took a pair of headphones, put one side in one ear and talked into the other. She was saying eerily accurate stuff like, “So your computer doesn’t work? OK, I can’t come out right now but I will send someone out to fix that.”

• After being around two teenagers all week, C has now taken to calling me “Mom.” Wow, it grates. Why is that?