Welcome to Our New Home

Although I can’t say I was completely surprised by the email announcing the closure of Webseed.com, the site that created all the “back of store” things connected to putting Deadlines and Diapers out on the net, I still feel a little shell-shocked.  A decision had to be made.  To quit or continue that was the question.  Deadlines and Diapers is one of my cyber-babies.  I love the fact that people enjoy the column, and sometimes I actually get an email from someone who has been helped by something I’ve said and that’s a tremendous feeling.  So the site is to stay.  I’ve found somewhere to host it and now I just have to figure out how it all works. 

This is following close on the tail of a physical move we’ve made from our apartment to a house.  After the apartment, the house feels like a different world.  Any of you who live in an apartment without an elevator will understand the amount of preparation that goes into taking a baby out.  No longer does it take me half an hour to get ready.  I used to have to check every single thing I had to make sure that I hadn’t forgotten anything, then when I had “bounced” the stroller and baby down the first flight of stairs, I’d check again – then because pregnancy killed off many of the major brain cells I used to have, I would check again at the bottom of the next set of stairs – because once I went further down, I wouldn’t be able to leave the stroller to go back up again.   Now I just Jake in his stroller, pick up the changing bag and go.  Forget women’s lib, this is "Momma’s Lib"!

It’s a strange thing about deadlines.  Just because someone gives you one, doesn’t mean that it has any significance for them.  Last week I received a response to an article I submitted.  Nothing unusual in this except that I had very little recollection about the article, except that I did remember writing it.  Having searched my “sent” box, finding nothing and then realizing I spring-cleaned it so that everything dating before last summer was deleted, I turned to my paper records and there I found it.  I’d wrote and sent this piece in February 2001!  Thank goodness I still believe in keeping records on paper.  After this experience, this is one office that will not be paperless for a long time! 

Wishing you all a successful week,

Katie-Anne