I admit up front that this photo is kind of cheating, since I did not take it today. Tuesday's photo-taking did not go so well in that I discovered around 6:30 p.m. that I had unwittingly had my camera set to night mode all day, and so anything shot in normal light (i.e. all my pictures from today) looked like a laser light show. So I'm using a photo I took a few days ago.

Dan went out of town last week on business. This isn't something that happens too often, and for that I'm thankful. But in the last month he's had several two or three-day trips to make, and we miss him when he's gone. On the last night that Dan was away, I staggered to bed in total exhaustion, turned off the lights and went to sleep without taking much notice of my surroundings. Which is how I missed this:

Apparently, at some point during the day, Kate snuck into our bedroom and tucked her baby doll into Dan's side of the bed. When I opened my eyes in the morning, there was the doll. It made me laugh to think of her arranging the covers just so and then just leaving it there for me to find. I guess she didn't want me to be lonely.