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Well today it is so gloomy outside that the lighting in the library actually hurts my eyes. It's one of those days where you can just feel snow building in the air ready to dump on us at an inconvenient time, like rush hour. My commute wasn't good today. It took me over an hour and a half to get here . What is it about road construction that makes everyone stubborn, refusing to leave the lane that is going to close until the last moment. So that you have to wait 30 minutes to get through a small length of road that is crawling b/c no one will let the other guy in. Hard to believe it is almost December. Only a few shopping weeks left. My paycheck doesn't seem to last as long as it used too. When I first started here 11 years ago, I was able to take a portion of my part-time check and save each pay period. First I treated myself to a movie camera (which of course, does not work anymore), 2nd I was able to save enough money to take my family on a trip to Disney World for 1 week. That was memorable, my kids were still young, trips were still fun. I would like to do that again but now the money has to go in so many directions that it will probably take me 5 years to save it up. Good Grief!!!

Another niece!

Well, let's see my niece Emma is in the title bar picture (she's 1) and I have her little sister Caitlyn (2 weeks) on a post. It is only fair that I have Josie (Laura Josie) somewhere on this blog. Josie has turned 7 months old and lives in NY, so I don't get to see her often. She looks just like my brother, big blue eyes. She takes a picture next to her teddy bear each month and in this 7 month picture she is bigger than it.

It's the little Things

It's the little things in life that jump start you, I believe. My niece, Caitlyn was born two weeks ago, beginning of November. She was supposed to be born the end of December. So she is in a neo-natal ward at 3 lbs 12 oz. She is doing very well but the initial shock of seeing little tubes hooked to her and oxygen being pumped into her to keep her little lungs open and working is just that- a shock. She is sooooo tiny. She reminds me of a kitten, with the tinest of heads and the darkest of eyes when they open. She (Caitlyn) puts life into perspective. We can go to work, caught up with deadlines, having a rotten day, yet one little tiny hand touching yours or just the thought of it makes everything else better. I've always said my job in this world is to Mother. Some people are techno savy, some great with business, me-I could just sit in a rocking chair all day and put a baby to sleep, or feed them a bottle. I have 2 brothers, I'm the oldest and they are 9 and 15 years apart from me, so I've had a lot of practice. So even when I get my very first speeding ticket a block away from my house. The irony being it took me an hour and twenty minutes to get that far. And no he didn't let me off of it, it certainly is not like that in the movies. But to get back to the point, even with a crappy day like that, the thought of little Caitlyn makes everything clear. There are so many other things in life to worry about, first breathes, tubes being removed, first bottles, first diaper changes, first touches, laughs, etc that one cop with a hit list getting a chunk of my christmas money doesn't really matter in the larger scheme.