hammock
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mom’s quilt
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My mom finished Cate’s quilt and sent it to us last weekend. Is it not perfect? I keep going into the baby’s room to visit – it’s the perfect mixture of modern and girlie (and it’s hand-quilted).

vacuum
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So, I have been on maternity leave for the last week and a bit and so far no baby, but I have been amusing myself very successfully by:

• hanging this actual, received-in-the-mail postcard on our refrigerator and giggling every time I pass

• watching the Tina Fey/Sarah Palin & Amy Poehler/Hillary Clinton sketch on SNL about fifteen times, not so much giggling as crying with laughter

• reading a lot (in the hammock when it's not too hot)

• making three different soup recipes to freeze for later (all with homemade stock – overachiever)

• completing necessary things like getting our car (not vacuum unfortunately) serviced

• a pedicure (later today)

• napping

All in all, very good times. We are now hoping she'll hold out until Monday at about 9:00 a.m. so Telfer can finish up his night call this weekend…Sounds reasonable, no?

new motto
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Recently ensconced on our living room wall, we have adopted this as our new motto for this new phase of life. Or, I should say, I have adopted this as my new motto. When is Telfer NOT calm?

I had an appointment yesterday – Telfer was able to go too – and my doctor thinks I’ll be about two weeks early. I think this next Tuesday will be my last day at work. I am hoping for just a smidgen of hammock time before Cate makes her arrival. In other good news, she already weighs 5lbs, 14 oz. which relieves me. I was  a little worried she’d be way too puny.

I saw the vintage poster in a magazine and found a reproduction here. Apparently, "Keep Calm and Carry On" was a widely distributed British WWII slogan.

pink’s
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Before this baby comes, we are trying to cross a few things off our L.A. list that we have neglected in the seven years of living here…check off a visit to Pink’s, a famous L.A./Hollywood hot dog shack.

Of course we went *after* the Hollywood Bowl on Saturday night which meant we were standing in line for over an hour in an interesting (read:  seedy) part of town. Honestly though, when we finally had our hot dogs in our hot little hands at at 2:00 in the morning, it was well worth it…SO GOOD. And then we had to drive over an hour to get home.

Note: my hot dog has the fake nacho cheese squeezed all over it. I think Telfer will find this is an important distinction. Sheer willpower keeps me from consuming fake nacho cheese over everything.

pink’s hot dogs
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