To Do This Week: - Take daughter to receive first round of flu shottage.

- Have lady garden inspected by mid-wife.

- Step on Scale of All Knowing in front of nurse practitioner.

- Stop denying fact that Hershey's cookies n' creme consumption of late could kill a small giraffe.

- Teach proper quotation and attribution for eleventieth time!!!!!!

- Fly to Cleveland with toddler in lap, leaving my poor Loverpants behind.

(If you've made it this far, flying to Cleveland is totally not even the worst of it) - Attend funeral for Nana (she passed this past weekend; we are relieved, saddened, thinking about wonderful, whimsical pixie that she was).

- Try to remember what to say before and after Gospel reading in Catholic Mass even though have not attended since Bush Sr. administration, lest I remind parents that flushed tens of thousands of dollars of their tuition dollars down tubes for 12 years of Catholic education. Mea culpa. - Return to Beantown.

- Take toddler daughter to growth clinic.

- Put her on Scale of All Knowing in front of nurse practitioner.

- Endure wrath of growth clinic wondering why our daughter is not gaining 10 lbs./hour.

- Remind growth clinic that daughter is product of lean Asian man/gymnast-sized Caucasian mother.

- Try not to eat more Hershey's.

- Try not to find self at growth clinic for rapid expansion of girth not due to prenatal baby.