Telly shows to swoon over

1) Gilmore Girls - the banter, the light touch, the charming, yet crazy town of Stars Hollow.  The last boyfriend of Rory's... Fancypants McThatGuy

2) Designing Women - the bravado, the clothes, that staircase... the NIGHT ... THE .... LIGHTS... WENT....OUT.... IN... GEORGIA!

3) Love Boat
4) The Ghost Whisperer (yes, I watched it for close to 3 seasons. I was single and having a rough go of it.)
5) The Muppets Show
6) Anne of Green Gables - with Meagan somebody, Colleen Dewhurst.  Anne and Gilbert - 19th century flames!
7) Magnum P.I. (I watched it with my brothers and never understood what was going on.  Neither did they. Luckily, nor did my parents. They were mercenaries, right?)
8)Ab Fab - simply the best comedy to hop the pond.  I'm chanting as we speak....
9) Golden Girls.  There isn't a single episode that isn't laugh out loud funny.  There's not.  Don't try to think of one as a challenge.  I mean, the cheesecake, the wicker furniture, Stan Zbornak!

10) Facts of Life.  This show made me want to go to boarding school.

Other goodies:
Dynasty, The Colbys, Dallas, Small Wonder (you read correctly)! Family Ties

A feeling or two

Oftentimes I find that holding my baby is the best feeling in the world. We were just in the park and I was giving her an airplane ride (me reclining on the lawn and hoisting her up on my legs while holding her arms). She looked radiantly happy and when her smile courses through her, it takes all I have not to shout to everyone to look and join me in adoring her. C'mon park-goers.... isn't she a wonder?!

Another good feeling: having a tired baby snuggle into you. It's all there - her warmth, her slackness, her need to be cared for, and her trust in me.

Motherhood is exhausting, but just so very (surprisingly) rewarding.

My Wishlist

Ha-ha! This is going to be fun. (I should tell my husband to consult this list when it comes upon birthday, anniversary, mothersday, holiday.)  Here are my first two

Want #1 - The fantastic Amanda Hobo by Tory Burch

Want # 2   American Woman book, by the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum or Art

Both have fun, fashionable and well-worth it additions to the home!

The LOOOOOONNGGGG and Short of It

It being Motherhood. Specifically, how the hours vary in perception in any given day.

Unsurprisingly, some hours zoom by - typically those when we are doing errands or rushing to get home to get the little bug in bed for a nap. But, other hours, oh my gosh, do they feel drawn out. How cliched that each minute feels like an eternity. But when an infants attention span is short and they have a preference to be held (incessantly), one looks desperately for things to do and a small apartment can hold only so diversions.

What are your longest hours with your children? Mine is from 4:30 to 6 pm? Once the clock rings six bells, this baby is bathed, changed, nursed and then nite, nite termite!

Sometimes you stumble upon something that makes you laugh out loud

And this is it! Thanks QBS!

Favorite movies - By Director

It's tough picking a favorite movie. You would be better off asking me what was my favorite black and white movie; favorite animated film; favorite movie by a particular director; foreign film; etc. Because movies, as with real life, are made up of lots of different experiences, textures and memories.

Here's an incomplete listing:
Favorite Hitchcock: Rebecca, Strangers on a Train
Favorite Scorsese: Age of Innocence, The Departed, Raging Bull
Favorite Coppola: Apocalypse Now
Favorite Wilder: Some Like it Hot
Favorite Hughes: 16 Candles
Favorite Malick: Days of Heaven
Favorite Spielberg: Minority Report (weird that it's not Schindler's or Saving Private Ryan.  Can't help it!)
Favorite Eastwood:  Gran Torino
Favorite Capra: It Happened One Night

Abrupt halt....I've done it.  I want to make a ton of sublists and spend the next few days watching nothing but movies.  Lists are swirling through my head:  My favorite Clark Gable, my favorite costume designs, my favorite foreign, best soundtracks..... Gosh, not easy to plunge into, but this just might be a fun weekly feature!