The chaos is now fully geared up - I’ve been cleaning the house today instead of working, and buying out the grocery stores . . . I probably won’t write until the weekend is over and some of the family has gone home. If I can just keep mom from getting an ucler, we’ll be good! She gets very worked up about family occasions like this one . . . she’s bouncing off the walls already. I forced her to stay here today because it’s raining torrentially and I figured she’d enjoy making some thank you cards with me - but who knows. It’s another evening of errands. Let’s hope I get some sleep. I have some sort of cough that won’t go away. I sound like I smoke a pack a day or something.

As soon as we get some digitals over the weekend, I will post them . . . I still can’t believe the first year of Lily’s life has gone by as quickly as it has. It literally flew. The first three months took forever - and the last 9 months just disappeared.