So, what are those things for again?

In case you missed it, last week a woman filed a lawsuit against Delta Airlines and one of their partner airlines because she was forced to leave an airplane after refusing to cover up her nursing child with a blanket. For the record, I have nursed many times on airplanes and never had any trouble. But because this woman refused the nasty, germy blanket (& truth be told, most children the age of this child will not *tolerate* a blanket over them on a hot airplane), she was removed from the flight because, apparently, disagreeing with a flight attendant is seen as a terrorist threat these days. God help us!

No surprise, there has been quite the backlash from the pro-breastfeeding community. Nurse-ins have been and are still scheduled to be held at airports around the country (in fact, there's one tomorrow morning at Delta ticket counters if you happen to be at an airport with a nursling - or two - in tow) in an effort to encourage the airlines to educate their personnel on already existing pro-breastfeeding policies, as well as develop more family/breastfeeding-friendly policies for travel.

The Wonderland blog has a great pithy piece on the whole affair - I had to pass it on.

Meanwhile, in my world, I'm still super tired. I actually went to the doctor about it last week and she doesn't think there is anything physically wrong such as anemia or thyroid issues. She does think it might help if I could, say, sleep through the night occasionally!! Imagine that. So we've been working on getting the 2 year old to sleep through. Our efforts paid off last night - she slep for 8 hour straight - almost unheard of for her! Unfortunately, I had developed a bad cold and couldn't sleep. Argh! But there is at least hope for the future if Maura keeps cooperating. Now that she's on antibiotics for her raging double ear infection, she's sure to sleep better (right? Right??).

I only got one layout done last week, but I like it. It's actually a dressed-up quick page put out by Michelle Coleman: