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InACitySoNice

I was about to sit down and work on a few letters, but then I realized, I don't have your address so I can't write you a proper thank you note!! 

So here it goes ...

Thank you SOoooooo much for so many things!  Thanks for dropping by and putting my baby blues at bay (I think they've actually gone away!  Yay!  All of the rhymes were totally unintentional, by the way!).  And thank you for ignoring the mess that is my apartment.  And thank you for being so sweet to my daughters.  And thank you for being so sweet as to bring sweets for their mother (I LOVED those macarons!  Sooo delicious!  I could swear I heard some singing to me this morning at Silver Moon!).  And thank you for the gifts you brought for Pen.  She loves the bubbles and makes sure she wears the necklace every day!  And the card was too adorable. And thanks for going out in the rain for batteries!  And you were tooo sweet!  And you're so pretty!  And I really had a great time!  It was wonderful meeting you!

Let's get together again soon!  Hope you're feeling well!

With Huge Thanks --

 me

doolin

Awwww, that's awesome but, believe me, the pleasure was all mine.  It was so great to finally meet you.  Can I confess something, though?  You look eerily like my therapist (whom I love).  I felt like I had to hold back to keep myself from unloading all about my mother (ah, good almodovar movie).  But doppelgangers aside, it was absolutely my pleasure.  Pen is simply an awesome kid and I found it hilarious just how many of your mannerisms I was able to see in her (and we just met!).  So funny.  And Alexandra is simply the most precious thing.  I keep thinking about those little feet peeking up from the bassinette and it makes me all giggly.  I just added a few of those little gowns to my registry because I want to see Orla's peeky feet too!  And thanks for trusting me with holding her - clearly I need to get more comfortable in the next few months.  It's been a long time since I've held a newborn and all my old fears of "breaking" them came back.  I'm thankful that you still were confident enough with me that I could keep it together.

 I am really thrilled that we live so close together and I am hoping upon hope that I can pick your brain like mad once Orla gets here.  You seem like such a nice, sane mom.  I have a feeling I'm going to need someone level-headed to talk to when the time comes.  :-)