Well, now that we've weeded out the riffraff and are left only with hardcore stalkers and those of you with RSS feeds, I have three pieces of news, ranging from sad to happy, to report.

1. Ethel died about a month ago, at the beginning of March. We had a lot of warning that it was going to happen, and she'd clearly been in very bad health since the holidays, but it was still pretty sad. We'll definitely miss her. She would have been 90 last week, and we were sorry she missed that, but it was still a good long life.

2. Robbie took a new job, which he's starting in early May. I feel it would be imprudent of me to go into the exact details of it here, but he's really excited, and it allows us to stay in Pittsburgh for the foreseeable future, which we're both really happy about. If you want to know more and don't already, you can email me (or him).

3. We appear to be having a baby! Yes. I'm due at the end of September. As you might expect, I'm still pretty nervous, but now that I'm out of the first trimester (I'm 14 weeks today) I'm feeling more confident than I was.

So, now you've heard all our big news. I plan to still update here every so often, because I don't want to be totally pregnancy-dimensional, but it won't be very frequent, and I think I'm going to stop blogging totally in September.