It has made for a nice balance -- working great guns on the book and then taking breaks to putter around in Jelly Tot's room. Yesterday I began packing my suitcase just to be prepared in case this little guy comes early. I pop in to refold and rearrange things too. Yesterday night, after I just couldn't write anymore, I went downstairs and began bundling jelly beans.
We live just south of the Jelly Belly factory and it is one of the goofy joys of our new California life to stop by their gift shop on the way home from Travis Air Force Base. We got tiny bags of blue jelly beans with "It's a boy!" written on them -- much, much better than cigars! We couldn't afford to do the same for all Brian's students, so we got bulk jelly beans in two nice shades of blue for me to tuck into tulle circles tied with pale blue ribbon. I would have waited until Brian gets home to help (holding the bag and tying the ribbon took a little fancy fingerwork), but it seems as though the rains are coming soon. Humidity + jellybeans = sticky!
I wiped down and dried the kitchen table, then set about making sixty even piles of beans. The colors were so quirky -- autumn tablecloth with cloudlike mounds of blue -- that I had to grab my camera.
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