you know- i was kind of hard core about keeping the cats out of dotty’s room from the day we got home with her from the hospital… over the top, perhaps. but they were pretty well trained to just stay out of there… and really, i don’t think they’d be able to leap that high to get into her crib anyway… once she was a little older, 6 months or so, i brought the cats in, and would occasionally put one of them in the crib with her which was such a treat for all.
see here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjenny/3148613316/
it was a good way to introduce them, i think. and now, they are super tolerant of her occasional rough love (tugging on tails and stuff)

thanks for the kind words on the blog!
best of luck with your last couple weeks and with the delivery too!!
xo

so do they just throw your mail out the truck window? that is so weird.
be careful of your poor back shoveling the snow!

i wish i could say that i made that blanket (is this the one you mean? http://www.flickr.com/photos/justjenny/3046968748/in/set-72157605833098780/

but it was just a super lucky score- i got it a few years ago and it’s probably the best granny knit blanket i’ve ever seen, and usually there are quite a few to see in the thrifts!

our post is talking about going m-f… they already closed our post office on saturdays, i think they made that change sometime last year. but to not have delivery was like, WHAT?! the roads were just awful, and now? the plows have made this wall of snow on the sides of the streets, thus *burying* the mailboxes, and we are supposed to make them available to the mail carriers (who deliver drive by style, from the truck) so it looks like there is even more shoveling in my near future. AGH!