Look how beautiful she is

Have you ever seen a more gorgeous baby?



I mean, really.

Look at those baby blues.

I see her everyday. And still. Looking at this picture takes my breath away.

Not my neck of the woods

I spent much of my day at Regency Court, a high-end shopping center where I do not belong.

The stores there are places like Pottery Barn, Ann Taylor Loft, White House Black Market and Anthropologie.

The merchandise basically rocks. It's high-quality, stylish, trendy, nice stuff.

But I could never in a million years buy any of it. It's not just kind of expensive. It's super expensive. Like $900 for a twin bed at Pottery Barn Kids expensive.

Also, the clientele? I don't look like those women. Those women push designer strollers and carry shopping bags from places like Borsheim's and Williams and Sonoma.

(An aside: Anthropologie totally and completely rocks. Today was my first time there, and oh man. That I loved it all so much makes the fact I can't buy anything there all the more painful. This afternoon, for example, I found a cute, vintagey orange dress. Loved it. Price tag, however: $90 - and that was the sale price. The dress above? $158.)

So while the shopping center is way nice and I am so grateful to have been given the opportunity to promote momaha.com (the World-Herald's Web site for moms of which I am in charge) there, it will be better for my bank account if I stick to places like Target and Kohl's.

But I can keep dreaming about those dresses.