This Washington winter has begun. I was already wearing my wonderful orange scarf from the lovely Edie. Now, I have cracked out the best hat in the world. Made by Heidi at mypapercrane.com, this hat is big and warm and orange and white. I had been thinking of going blue (hair) for the winter, but the pink hair looks so nice next to this hat that I may stay pink.

It is 10pm on a Saturday night and my life is strange. I jsut got finished listening to Jeff argue a bit about foriegn policy with someone we had never met in person until this evening. Cyber-friends. That's right a cyber friend of Jeff's and his wife were in town for a wedding and they, too, have a 4 month old, so they came by. It must be weird for Jeff to meet people he plays Halo with. It was pretty cool, actually. But you wonder what life will be like in 20 years... I mean, 20 years ago there was no internet (not really) and meeting a cyber-friend would never have happened. What will our girls' adult lives be like in 30 years? Will their record collections be implanted!? I hope so. I want to be 70 and get seasons of Buffy implanted. Or perhaps my favorite movie. What will that be then? Rosemary's Baby or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind?

I just got finished rocking Anya to sleep for a total of two hours. Oh my. This baby kicks my ass nightly. Sometimes when I am rocking her to sleep, I think about those horrible nanny shows. What did those parents do wrong? Did they love their babies and rock them to sleep. Did they let them cry it out? How did those kids get that way? Too much sugar?

Will Anya be a complete jerk when she is 5? Oh, I hope not. "Give me a boy of seven and I will show you the man." That line is from the 7UP documentary series. I think about that too... if I can just get her to 7 without having to call some TV nanny in to wrangle my kids, we will be fine.