A Wonder

We ran out of bread, and planned to buy some while we were out running errands. Unfortunately, we spent so long doing non-grocery shopping that by the time we got to the grocery store it was closed.

We stopped at a tiny convenience store near home instead.

To my horror, Patrick came out of the store carrying this:

Me: What could ever have possessed you to purchase that? (insert gagging noise)
Him: It was either that or the Wonder Classic White.
Me: But...this is Wonder Classic White.
Him: My point exactly.

Funny Guy.

Name Popularity

This website shows the popularity of names.

From the site: "Rank 1 is the most popular, rank 2 is the next most popular, and so forth. Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States."

Of the top 1000 names, here's how ours stacked up:
Holly 365 (2008), 126 (birth year)
Laurel 985 (2008), 566 (birth year)
Sean 83 (2008), 59 (birth year)
Liam 75 (2008), 89 (birth year)
Declan 347 (2008)
Celine 995 (2008)
Patrick 127 (2008)

I'm surprised that "Declan" is a more popular name than "Holly"!

Cleanup

A houseful of stuff was reduced to seven boxes to be saved--boxes of photos and other memorabilia that my parents had collected over their lifetimes. They fell into my hands late last August after my brother gleaned them from my father's house.

I stacked them in my bedroom, promising to get to them when we returned from vacation. Then morning sickness visited with its companion, fatigue, and so the boxes remained in several stacks, out in the open so that I wouldn't forget about them.

Today was the day. I opened each box and found photos, yearbooks, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, postcards, letters and books.

I removed photos from their frames, and freed others from their "magnetic" albums. Most everything else got tossed or donated. Now I have stacks upon stacks of photos that someday I expect to sort through and scan...someday when I have 4,582 hours to spare.

Seven boxes became two. These will get packed away until some far away day after the baby arrives; after we've settled into a new house.

It was bittersweet to see beloved people from my past--people I won't see again in this lifetime.