Well this one is a C-section, so I get to stay in the hospital for alittle longer than 5 minutes. Maybe I'll get part of the introduction done. New babies may sleep alot but their 4 yr old brother and 2 yr old sister doesn't anymore...:(((. Did you know that Children's Tylenol Cold & cough has the same stuff in it that NyQuil does, just lower doses! And yes, this little human is another girl, her name is Teagan. Poor brother and Dad will soon be outnumbered. And I will hopefully have another orchid accomplice,since my girl Campbell already shows great interest in the orchids! My husband says "every good shopper needs and accomplice". Maybe I'll have two!

We sci fi/fantasy readers NEVER give back books, but collect them and love them, returning to them when nothing new has come our way. I rarely get anything new here in Israel, so I rely on the one, maybe two used shops in Haifa, where the pickin's are slim and new stuff is a luxury and very expensive. My partner wails and moans over the state of my two bookshelves (messy, crammed, etc.) but I know exactly what is where. Years ago, my beloved books, which I laboriously brought with me overseas, was stored at an acquaitance's home while I relocated. There was a family fight, and her brother in a pique threw every book into the garbage, and I only found two survivors to tell the tale. Woodchip first edition of Our Bodies Ourselves, other jewels of sci fi fantasy from the seventies, you name it, GONE. Since then I've never let anybody have power over my library. I would curl up and fade away without my books, like without my garden. WHat I can't explain is my refusal to throw out a huge amount of old magazines, like The Whole Earth Review (I have them from when it was the Coevolution Quarterly); Mothering; the Sun, etc. Why do they mean so much? NO answer. Oh well, if this were only my wierdest quirk........

A nice 'pink' healthy baby would be wonderful!! lol I will be happy with either as they will. There are going to be ALOT of changes in these 2 kids in the next few months....should be a fun ride...to watch! lol

I have just asked my mum to buy "The Boy with the TopKnot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton" - Sathnam Sanghera. It's a memoir (duh) about an boy who grows up in England and looks to be really funny. Couldn't find it in the US so hoping to pick it up in person next autumn when I go to home (UK home) for a bit. This book just came out in paperback in April in the UK. Probably not much call for memoirs from Wolverhampton in the US.