I will be headed to “Poppygirl’s” for Thanksgiving dinner. She just arrived from China with daughter No. 2. I can’t wait to meet her!

In the meantime, I will leave you with the fluffiest of celebrity news. Actually, actress Keri Russell (Felicity), who has a five-month-old baby, was spot on in this Newsweek piece, about what she has learned from motherhood:

4 Nursing is the best diet: “Breastfeeding – I’m starving all the time. I eat every two hours. And I’m not talking a cracker. In the morning, I have eggs and toast and coffee and a muffin and granola and yogurt. And then I want steak.”

5 It’s not easy being green: “I would love to do the cloth diapers, but I can’t cut it. I’m ruining the Earth with my diapers. I’m sorry.”

6 Actually, being a mom isn’t always felicity: “I thought when you have a baby, you get this wisdom. But I still feel like a kid. I’m really happy, and I feel really crazy, too. I cry. I break glasses on the floor. I have spaz attacks. I feel rage I’ve never felt. Your heart and your feelings expand. In a way, it’s nice. You’re living more.”

That sums it up for me. In other celebrity mothering news, I heard on the radio that Britney’s sons spent yesterday with their mother and today they will be at K-Fed’s.

Any other gossip you wish to share? Please do!

I just got back from my prenatal appointment and I am bummed. Even though my due date is this Sunday, I have made no progress in terms of dilation and effacing in two weeks. My midwife is confident she will see me in my next appointment on Tuesday. SIGH.

I know I sound like a whining baby, but this is NOT what I want to hear. I have already gained 45 pounds -- the total weight I gained with Ari -- and am so big I can barely sleep, drive and tie my shoes. Thankfully, we’ve had nice weather so that I can wear flip-flops everywhere. I am looking forward to the day I can carry Ari for more than a few seconds at a time.

My midwife also informed me that based on my measurement and her poking around, the baby is at least 8 pounds. Oy. In the meantime, I continue lathering my belly with lotion as it is stretching and itching, and taking walks. Sorry to those of you who guessed an early delivery for me. :-)

Also, I am catching up on news to keep my mind off the impending birth. (Wait a minute, what's that cramp?! Oh, just another Braxton Hicks contraction. Never mind.) This Washington Post piece piqued my interest -- and ire.

In a WP op-ed column, policy analyst and author Carrie Lukas slammed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s move to bridge the pay gap between men and women. While Lukas made some valid points that American women, for example, tend to place a higher premium on personal fulfillment over money as surveys have consistently shown, she made the sweeping generalization that we are solely responsible for the wage gap. She wasn’t convinced that there was any gender discrimination.

My response: For evidence of discrimination, just look at WalMart -- the No. 1 employer in this country -- which is enmeshed in litigation for systematically paying mothers a lot less than men for the same exact work, according to Joan Blades’s Motherhood Manifesto.

Lukas’s arguments would have been more credible if she had actually compared the wages of men and women in the same position, rather than shrug off any claims of discrimination with a “well, lots of women work in non-profits.” She’s right that many women work in non-profit jobs and that they usually do not yield as much money as, let's say, a private firm on Wall Street. But since we are talking about discrimination, shouldn’t we be comparing the wages of men and women who are in the same exact position? For example, I would have liked to have seen a comparison of wages for a female non-profit project developer to that of a man’s.