Yes, it's really been a year since the last time I asked you to wish Keri a happy birthday. Please do it again. For me.

And while you're at it, send good thoughts to my cousin Cate and her hubby Stan. Blessedly, little Elizabeth Marie had fully developed lungs when she was born yesterday, despite being more than a month premature and despite a sonogram just 4 days before saying that her lungs weren't quite ready for the outside world. Cate's first daughter, Brigid, spent well over a month in the NICU before she could come home. Thank God, it looks like Elizabeth won't have to go through the same thing.