See the previous journal entry for the first part of this story.

As mentioned at the end of the last entry, I left out a few little funny stories from the L&D room.  One of the residents and the medical student were actually pretty funny.  They kept cracking jokes about things.  At one point the resident told me that they could see quite a bit of ( Read more... )

Warning: The writing below will contain all sorts of details about Kyra's birth, from the first contractions to when they moved me into the Mommy and Me suite.  If you don't like that sort of thing, you should stop reading this here ( Read more... )

So, tomorrow we'll be signing up for a daycare.  It was one of the three finalists that we actually chose to interview/visit.  We visited two of them today - La Petite Acadamy and Handicare.  We actually won't be visiting the 3nd one (Love a Lot) until September sometime.  The 3rd one is actually our first choice for price and location.  However, ( Read more... )

"An Artificial Night" by Seanan McGuire, book 3 of the October Daye series, following "A Local Habitation"

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Review: I found this book to be better than the second book, mostly because in this book McGuire drops the idea that October is an investigator.  While the book opens with several people, including Tybalt, approaching ( Read more... )

"Dragondrums" by Anne McCaffery.  Book three in the Harper Halls trilogy, following "Dragonsinger"

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

Review: This is the concluding book of the Harper Halls trilogy.  Unfortunately instead of following Menolly, the main character of the first two books, this book switches focus to Piemur, who we met in book two.  I think the ( Read more... )

"A Local Habitation" by Seanan McGuire, book two of the October Daye Series, following "Rosemary and Rue"

Rating: 3 1/2 stars out of 5

Review:  This book picks up a few months after the end of "Rosemary and Rue".  Tobe has been enjoying getting to know all her old friends again.  Then she's sent on a job - her Liege hasn't heard from his niece for ( Read more... )

"Rosemary and Rue" by Seanan McGuire,  Book 1 of the October Daye series ( Read more... )

"Blackveil" by Kristen Britain, book 4 in the Green Rider series

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Review:  This book starts off fairly slow but picks up pace about halfway through.  There seem to be more storylines to follow than previous.  I had a bit of trouble remember who some of the newer characters were as it's been a year or two since I last read the ( Read more... )

"Kill the Dead" by Richard Kadrey.  Book two in the Sandman Slim series, following "Sandman Slim"

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Review: Overall I thought this book was a great second book in the series.  My biggest complaint about the first book was that Stark was a throughly unlikable person with anger management issues.  It didn't really seem like his ( Read more... )

"The Patron Saint of Plagues" by Barth Anderson

Rating: 2.5 out of 5

Review: Set sometime in the future - late 21st century perhaps?  The world has changed quite a bit.  The American farm industry was hard hit by a crop fungus, more or less destroying it.  Meanwhile Mexico underwent a politico-religious revival and has become a world superpower - ( Read more... )