July 2. Hi all. Just returned from Moving Emily into her first real apartment in the Bronx, at Albert Einstein Medical school, where she will live for 8 years getting her MD PhD. We painted, and scraped, and polished, and nailed things up, and made it PRETTY, and like home, painting it in the colors of her room at home, to help her feel like she is indeed in her own home. The movers showed up at 7 pm, YIPES, and we are all exhausted, but there is food in her fridge, and clothes in her closet (clean), and her bathtub is clean, and her bed is made with fresh sheets. Life is good. She even has plants on her windowsill.

So.....study begins for Emily.

I'd like to thank the wonderful women who have answered my call to help me knit hats for the beautiful babies I work with who need my help to breastfeed. I have enough now, I think, to keep me going for a while, and I thank those who have even thought about making hats for the babies. It's a labor of love, and one that I can pay for only incrementally, but I do my work on a sliding scale, and every baby gets a handmade hat now, and that makes me HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY. And the mothers,......for some of them, it may be their only hand made baby gift.....as some mothers just do not have that much in the outer communities of our state.

Thank you to everyone. You are all PEACHY! I also want to thank everyone for the lovely expressions of kindness where Ollie's death is concerned. I still miss that old beast, and am contemplating getting a puppy, but first, I have to wrap my mind around getting on Embrel for my rheumatoid arthritis, which means two injections a month.

And $10K a year. HOLY medication, Batman.

yikes. More later......exhausted from the move.... Blessings. Kathleen