Barbie's freshly renovated apartment - gorgeous!

It was inevitable

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Today is Shower Day!

So here we are in Barbara's office on the 26th floor of One Embarcadero Center. Heather just about fainted when she saw the view from the executive conference room where we ate our bagel breakfast and wrapped the gifts. In just a bit we are going to truck a huge pile of baby loot over to the restaurant where the shower will take place then pick up cupcakes (cute!) for dessert.

Jane, Heather and I walked over to the Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market this morning and, even in March, the fruits and vegetables were enough to send me into fits of glee. Since we're going off to El and Bret's home in Tracy tomorrow I got some gorgeous artichokes (and organic lemons for Hollandaise) plus some of the most beautiful tomatoes I've seen in ages for a lovely Caprese salad. We also got targeted by opportunity and bought samosas and cilantro chutney that were made this morning. We really tried to pace ourselves, knowing that Barbara was bringing goodies from the House of Bagels but the number of samples of incredibly delicious local foods made it hard to resist.

Hopefully Jane and Heather will start sending pictures this morning. A technical glitch had us offline yesterday but today it is full steam ahead.

More later!

I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

We leave for San Francisco in less than two weeks! Jane, bless her organized little heart, has been the family gift collector and has acquired another wonderful thing that I am not going to reveal because the mother-to-be may read this (but let's just say its is very, very special). She and Barbara have really taken care of everything and I have no doubt both the trip and the shower will be a crashing success.

We'll be packing a lot into a very short trip but one of the most wonderful parts, I hope, will be getting to know our darling Heather much better. Yes, I know she's in her thirties but to me she will always be the sweet little red-headed girl who walked down the aisle with Bertums at JH's first wedding (what number is he on now? I forget...). Is it going to seem weird to share a bottle of wine and adult conversation with her? Maybe only for the first few minutes. At any rate, we meet up at the airport on Friday morning and San Francisco had better be prepared.

Another fun part of the trip will be our training walk on Saturday morning. Everyone knows that Jane and I are signed up for the 3-Day for the Cure again this year and we thought it would be a great way to kick off our training to do a walk in San Francisco on Saturday morning. Wish you all could walk with us! We discovered on our walk through DC that you might think you know a city but it looks amazingly different from the sidewalk than it does from inside a car. I'm looking forward to seeing a whole new city than we've seen before and taking tons of pictures. Hopefully I can get them on the web this time - thanks to my adorable children, all my pictures from the 3-Day somehow got gone. I'm sure it wasn't on purpose. At least I think I am.

This is a Test

In preparation for our trip to San Francisco for Eleanor’s baby shower. Jane and I will be blogging text and pictures realtime and will be tweeting as well, if you want to follow me on Twitter (I’m wolfemc, if you’re a Twitterhead).

March 11 we’re in the air, March 12 is the shower and we’ll be sharing our trip with you.

Laura loses her hair...

For a good cause!

She came to me a few weeks ago and told me she wanted to cut her hair and donate it to Locks of Love (www.locksoflove.org), a wonderful organization that makes wigs for children suffering from cancer. I'm not sure where she even heard of it but she was very, very sure this was something she wanted to do. I'll admit, I had a bit of heartburn about it, maybe since I've never been able to grow long hair and I was a bit attached to hers. No matter, she was firm in her conviction and asked me about it repeatedly until we agreed that we would do it this week.

So yesterday we went to the Hair Cuttery in Charles Town and she very confidently told the stylist what she wanted. We marked off her hair with elastic bands then SNIP, off came 12 inches of her hair. Now she has a cute shoulder length do with side swept bangs and some child suffering from a horrible disease will be able to go to school and not have the other kids stare. I am so amazingly proud of her I can barely speak.

We're having a heat wave...

Seriously, last night when we got home from taking Sophie back to Cecily's even at 7:30 pm the temp at the bank was showing as 105 degrees! Thankfully the girls have found a great way to keep cool (Girl #3 is our friend, Wei Wei Poole, also adopted from China and JiaJia's best friend).

Without question this is the best $14.95 plus tax I've ever spent (and don't think Mom hasn't cooled her toes in the water a time or two.) Watching them enjoy themselves reminds what it was like when we were kids. The whole summer seemed to stretch out in front of you and you thought it would never end.