Just piled Matt and Gracie into the car (with Mary Poppins on DVD, much to Matt’s delight) and am now hanging out with Whit. Matt & Grace are going up to New Hampshire to join the Lavallees for a ski weekend and I’m going to hold down the fort with the little guy. He’s sadly not much interested in Bob the Builder and keeps coming into my office where I’m trying to pay bills and write birthday cards and generally take care of the details of the week.

Have been reading a lot about my new industry and just feel so excited! Just need to get on with it. One more NY trip for BCG to close some loops & say some goodbyes, and then Providence here we come! Hooray! After a long President’s Day weekend (and my half birthday – and you know how important half birthdays are to August babies like me) I will get into the car and head south. I can’t WAIT.

Don’t have a lot to report. Lovely visit with HWM yesterday, albeit too brief. Also saw Bouff and got to celebrate the news that her baby is a … X! I won’t spill her news here, but it’s exciting and I can’t wait for July to roll around so I have a Princeton newborn to hug and cuddle and coo over. Especially since my own Princeton babies are large and loud now, very distant from their own babyhoods.

Photograph is of the Cambridge Skating Club in full ice mode … from last weekend, where we spent most of our weekend on the ice. Grace is a maniacal skater already and I can easily flash forward to my future as a hockey mom. Will need to invest in some Sorels for that.