Back online!

..thanks to Drew, who ordered us a new modem and installed it tonight. Thanks, Drew!!

We've been having a fun, lazy two days -- getting up late, eating leisurely breakfasts, playing with Rachel (Drew), running around doing errands (me, including the most boring errand imaginable -- buying new BRAS, but it had to be done, my old ones are too big now that I've lost weight), cooking dinner at home, putting Rachel to bed (Drew again), cleaning up and de-cluttering the house (me) and watching movies at night.

I could totally get used to this life.

Rachel startled us both last night by announcing, "It's 9 o'clock." Neither of us commented on the time; when did she learn how to read a clock??

We had a late Hanukkah last night, since Drew had a hankering for latkes. I made seven and they turned out perfectly. And Rachel LOVED Drew's gift of a baby doll with a stroller. She has put Dolly (that's its name; I asked) in the stroller and wheeled her (him? it?) all over the house multiple times already. Dolly has a seat at the kitchen table (near the window that looks out onto the driveway) and Rachel tried to feed her some ravioli tonight. When I walked into the bedroom just now, Rachel was sitting in the glider, Drew was next to her reading a story and Dolly was in her stroller. "She's naken!" Rachel announced proudly, and it's true, Dolly was missing the little pink baby pajamas she came with. I think she is fated to be naked as long as Rachel owns her. (If I were Mom, I would have sewed an entire wardrobe for her by now, but I have forgotten all the sewing skills I fleetingly acquired in 7th grade home ec class).