Sylvia's Journal

I had just started on a rather girly looking sweater for a new born when word (and jpeg) reached us that it is a boy that is in the making, a baby boy Bliss. And so I unraveled the second sweater in as many days.

Sita and Jim will have a baby boy on May 28 if everything goes according to plan. This little boy is lucky to have three sets of eager grandparents awaiting him, a teeny cousin, Nora, a wonderful set of aunties and uncles in close proximity and then of course the best parents he could wish for. Yesterday there were many exclamations all around Massachusetts: “It’s a boy!”

And so we are settling in for the seemingly long wait of four more months. I am trying to arrange my travel schedule so that late May/early June is stay-at-home time. That may turn out to be a big challenge.

Today I am starting an intense period of travel with a trip to Kenya. In the next three months I will be visiting 8 countries, all in Africa except Japan later this month. It temporarily solves my billing problem, finding enough billing codes to fill 8 hour days.

When on a mission like this I have the luxury of having a code for the entire period plus some spillover for after I am back. And then of course I won’t have to get up at 4:30 to get quickly to Cambridge, ahead of thousands of fellow commuters (although some people would think that is still better than commuting by plane to Africa).