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The great thing about people coming to visit you in Upland, Indiana is that you can be sure they have no ulterior motives. If they're coming to see us here, then they are really coming to see us; there is nothing else to see. When we were in Seattle we could never be sure. Grin.

On the other hand, I guess Mom and Dad were visiting us mainly because of the True Woman conference in Indianapolis last weekend. Ah, well. There goes that theory.



Mom left on Wednesday, and on Friday Grace came to visit us. Well, to visit us AND to present some research at a conference in Michigan. Shoot.

Grace and Rosie and I drove to Ypsilanti on Friday and spent the night there, then drove back to Upland on Saturday. Somehow Grace managed to escape without my ever getting a picture of her. But I do have the view from our hotel

and the coat she brought from Taiwan for Rosie


Jack took Grace to the airport this afternoon, and when he returns from Indy he'll be bringing another visitor, Uncle Jim, who is arriving by Greyhound tonight to stay for a week. He, at least, is just coming to see us. And hopefully to babysit so that we can go see "The Social Network".

Frankly, with all the driving I've done in the last two weeks, beginning with driving 45 minutes each way to see my OBGYN two days in a row, back and forth and back and forth and back and forth (etc) to Indy and the Indy airport, and ending with the driving to Michigan and back, I'm feeling totally frazzled and like I want to sit on my own sofa and eat ice cream and not talk to anyone for a few days. I'm fine if the winter blizzards go ahead and start and keep me trapped this week (seems like they might, with lows in the 30s already!). Of course then I'll probably switch from ice cream to brownies, warm from the oven. Or, what the heck, both.

I guess I'm a homebody after all.

Here's my girl:


And here's my belly, at 14 weeks:

And, PS, I do love having my friends and family come to visit. Thank you for coming to our boring middle of nowhere Upland.