dryer hymns plus an update

We are happy to announce that we have a dryer! It arrived last Friday morning and though I haven't used it yet (I actually forgot it was there last time I did laundry), it is exciting to see it there. Thanks to mom for fixing up a relic from her day (a lovely shade of yellow) and to her and Babycue's Aunt B (and my canine niece and nephew) for carrying it to the basement for me! Thanks also to all who offered a dryer to us! We appreciate that you thought of us and our damp clothes.

This is probably only funny to us, but we have been looking at the names of hymns (the tune name) for baby names. I have a piano student who has been working on some hymns to play in church for Christmas, and in her book they are all listed by tune name. Some of them are kind of good for real names, so when we are in church we laugh at the names of the songs we are singing. We actually start singing the song, and then notice the tune name, and laugh, and point, and then start looking at pages before and after in the hymnal. I'm sure people who notice us wonder what is going on, but there are names likes Aberswythe, Diademata, Runessan, Federal Street, Hursley, Boylston, and Darwal to laugh at. Of course, we would have to listen to the tune to decide if we liked it (how awful to have something as strange as a name after a hymn and then to have the melody be unpleasant).

Due date update: St. Patrick's Day (March 17), which means we are 20 weeks along (halfway). Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you can check out the due date countdown.