Saving Eli

This season, I found the BEST new show to watch. Eli Stone is a great program. If you haven't heard about it yet, here's the scoop:

Eli is a lawyer who begins to have visions, apparently from divine inspiration. He begins to turn his shark-like legal skills away from protecting big companies and starts to help those in a true need for justice. Throw in a somewhat bitchy ex, a cute but taken co-worker, and a couple of musical numbers (not kidding-they're acutally really good!) and you have a show that makes you laugh, cry, and even think about God.

Want more? ABC is providing all of the shows online, most with limited commercials. If you haven't seen it yet, it's definitely worth the time to watch.

Unfortunately, ABC may already be getting ready to throw Eli into the has-been division of their programming lineup. If you like Eli, here's one way to possibly keep him on the air. Or, you can go directly to the ABC message boards and post a comment.

Pretty boy

Just a bit of random: Baby J is doing well; he has TWO teeth now, which is just amazing to me. He still smiles ALL the time, but now he thinks it is HILL-LAR-EE-US when I sing to him. He especially likes Hava Nagila (which I don't know the words to, so I just sing the melody) and the theme from the Lone Ranger, which goes really well with his cowboy-themed Jumperoo.

He is also rebelling against afternoon naptime and bedtime. Now, he sometimes stays up for 2-3 hours past bedtime, even when we go through the whole routine. He get a bath, then jammies, story, and a bottle, and STILL insists he isn't going to sleep just yet. I don't know what prompted this, and to make it more perplexing, he still has days where he is spot-on with the routine and konked out at 6:30 on the dot.

Next week I start working from home, scoring standarized tests again. This will be interesting, to see how successful I can be with a baby and a job that requires so much focused concentration. I'm gonna give it my best shot, because it's probably the only way I can stay home and make money and the same time.

I looked into child care options, well, only 2 so far. The daycare chain Tutor Time wanted 1380/mo for Jensen. I nearly choked. The other place is run by the woman who runs the Sunday nursery at church, and I thought it would be ideal that Jensen could be somewhere that he already knew someone. However, she said that the waiting list is so long, that he wouldn't get in by Sept for me to go back to work...sigh. So, I'll regroup and try to find some other places nearby that I feel like I can trust with my little one and aren't going to make me go broke.