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Our old van apparently had an engine fire last night, and is now dead. I'm sad about this, not because I was super emotionally attached to it, but because mactavish and deyo didn't get much use out of it at all, and none of us ever had a chance to use it for camping.

I'm glad it didn't happen while we were driving Leif around or something. I doubt it would have been much danger - the fire was burning for half an hour, and didn't do much damage to the interior of the van - but that's an adrenaline rush I don't need.

Tomorrow it's apparently going to San Jose, where a man and his teenage daughter who go everywhere in their Westy will use it for spare parts. I'm glad. That's better than the dump.

Leif may be starting to move to one nap a day. I tried to get him to sleep this morning, and he wasn't having any of it.

It may just be because of Daylight Savings Time. We've been sleeping till 8:00 instead of 7:00, so predictably he doesn't want to take a nap quite as early, but if he takes a nap at 11:00 he isn't going to take an afternoon nap until late, so I just kept him up. We need to move back to waking up at 7:00 though, so perhaps we'll go back to morning naps as well.

Michael's craft supply store sucks. They don't carry elastic. Well, beading elastic, but that doesn't do me any good.

They sell other sewing supplies. Why don't they sell elastic?

I just want to finish this diaper so I can figure out how to improve on it and do more before I lose interest. As far as I can tell, there isn't any fabric store closer than Seven Corners, which is about an hour and a half away on the bus.

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[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I've probably got extra in my pile of sewing stuff, but it wouldn't get to you before Monday if I mailed it, and it'd be random elastic.

All four of mine...

[murphymom.livejournal.com]

...stopped taking naps at all when they were 18 months old. And for both boys, the day they first skipped their one nap was the night they finally slept through without waking up and wanting to play at 1:00 a.m.

[geminigirl]

There's a Hancock or a G Street in Sterling, I think. I'm around the corner from a Hancock, but it's after midnight, and I won't have a chance to get there tomorrow (I have to be in Reston Fridays at the moment.)

If you're still stuck in a day or two, let me know, and I'll see what I can get to you. I've got Monday off and will almost certainly be in a fabric store that day.

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

"Tomorrow it's apparently going to San Jose, where a man and his teenage daughter who go everywhere in their Westy will use it for spare parts. I'm glad. That's better than the dump."

That's how I felt about Kermit the Green Volvo Wagon. Funny how a simple vehicle can affect so many...