Play Ball!
Take me out to the ballgame, or at least let me get away with streaming the game online today at my desk. It is opening day for the Red Sox and I’m going to be cheering for the home team.
getting old
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3 beers over 7 hours and I’m a bit hung over. Pathetic, no? Congrats to Ali Benjamin on a fantastic event, Northern Berkshire Nursing Families raised just shy of $19,000 last night, Eric and Eric, the evening’s mcs were fantastic. I hang my head in shame for thinking that Thomas Paine and not John Jay was an author of the Federalist Papers, but saved some face by being able to name Marge Simpson’s maiden name. She shares it with a former first lady, can you name it too?
Thanks Molly Kerns for inviting me to join the best table in the room.
Fun with Flickr
Needed to get a post in before I left for work, had nothing to write about so I spent a few minutes in Flickr.
Photo by Fort Photo
This photo is available under a Creative Commons agreement, which is how I can share it with you today.
Yabba Dabba Do
My children are eating cheerios, watching the Flintstones while we wake up and get ready today. Turn the clock back 35 years and it could easily be me and my brother.
In other news, I’m competing this weekend in Northern Berkshire Family Nursing’s trivia contest at the Williams Inn on Saturday. This is a cause very close to my heart. Nursing doesn’t come naturally to some women and babies and having a free support system in place is beyond invaluable, especially in an era where the most likely source of support, your own mother, probably didn’t nurse.
I spent most of the first 12 weeks of Cate’s life working with a very expensive lactation consultant before surrendering to the reality that she was going to be a bottle baby. Alex took to it much easier, and I think still has moments when he remembers the comfort he got from it, even though we stopped three years ago.