tuesday

Finally back online and with stuff to post about :). Our commitment with SBC DSL expired, so we decided to switch to more affordable services---cable internet and voice over IP phone. Our phone hardware from Sunrocket (unlimited domestic calling for $199 a year! and they have a promo for buy one year, get one free right now) should arrive later this week, so hopefully we'll be fully in-touch with the outside world then.

Yesterday was Jon's bday; he says he's getting to feel like an old man.

Also had our first rat injury yesterday. Ben got her toe stuck in a crevice in the cage bars. It was really sad; she was completely panicking and after I finally got her free her foot bled and swelled up. She ran up my shirt sleeve and just huddled there, shaking. Amazingly, it looks nearly good as new this morning. Alhamdullilah :)

We have a busy rest of the month. We're getting a date on Mother's Day (!), next Tuesday we're both on a public panel about American Muslims, then the next weekend we have my cousin's wedding and another cousin's graduation bbq. Toward the end of the month, we'll have our fifth anniversary.

And a GDA for the mamas out there: Maya Wrap has lightly padded slings for $20. They were mistakenly made with the "second best" pattern, which differs from the not-yet-released final by having a slightly different shoulder and steel rings rather than aluminum. Great deal :)