Yes, thanks to sarameg and the other localistas who represented all the rest of us.

Lots of strength, hugs and love to Maria.

And to ChiKat - so sorry about Mickey.

Teppy, I'll be eating homemade paczkis today! Very exciting. My parents' friend makes them every year, and I hear they're insanely delicious.

Dang, homemade? I haven't had homemade paczki since my grandma died.

I did, however, bring a dozen paczki from a bakery to work, like I do every year. And then had to re-teach my co-workers how to say "paczki" and explain that it's a plural noun. Not sure why they would expect any less from an editor.

And I am so full of fatty, sugary (and gluten-y) goodness right now -- I ate a custard-filled one -- that I may just fall on the floor and start sleeping. Or possibly lapse into a sugar coma.

Well, of course it's plural - like you could eat just one.

I wish I had some. . . or some pancakes. . . . possibly pancakes for dinner tonight.

pancakes for dinner!!! Yes! I was lamenting what I would do for dinner tonight to keep the positive momentum up for family dinners.

I was too lazy to go out for breakfast, so I am eating mixed green and fruit salad I had brought to suppliment lunch. Salad for late breakfast, new one for me.

I am so sorry about Mickey, ChiKat.

I almost bought Paczki yesterday- I saw them at the grocery store and thought of Steph! I have never seen them in Rochester, and this is an inner city store, so I thought it was weird.

We may do pancakes for dinner tonight! We freeze left over pancakes to pop into the toaster for a quick breakfast for the kids, so some nights I cook up a triple batch. It's a lot of pancake flipping, but it makes a bunch of meals.

Jacqueline [My Last Name]. I really thought it was all Jimmie!

Is there a cutesy J thing in your family, Jesse?

I just saw a teaser for "a search is on for the mother of a newborn baby abandoned at a gas station..." Am I right in understanding that if the same person (in California, at least) had abandoned the same baby at an appropriate hospital or fire station, there would be no search, and they could go on as normal? Well, as normal as possible?

Yes, I believe that in many states (like IL, I think) if you left the baby at a hospital or police station or fire station there wouldn't be a search.

there are some states where you could leave an infant anywhere safe and there would be no search. I thought CT or NY was one of those states.

I think the child has to be under 9 months?