Season's greetings to everyone -- among ABs, I'll bet Christmas is one of the favorite holidays, with the promise of toys in the morning. May visions of sugarplums dance in your heads!

Hey, great news! On BBIF, David reports that my favorite disposable diaper, the Abena AbriForm X-Plus, will soon be available again in the USA in its original form. They had recently been changed to be less expensive but less effective as well, but apparently they've received enough complaint letters at Abena that they're changing them back. I might actually buy them again! Which is good, because I've only got a few of the old ones left.

Oh, and Baby Jamie changed his T-shirt so that it spells "Dr. Seuss" correctly. Go buy some of these! They're cool! Now if only I were daring enough to wear some of them in public ... "Diaper Princess" maybe? 8:-)

Check it out! Baby Jamie designed a bunch of T-Shirts with an AB theme. Wow! I pointed out that "Dr. Seuss" is spelled wrong on one of them; maybe he'll fix it. But these look cool! I want the one that says "Does this diaper make my butt look big?"

Within the last few days I have learned that Dickie Byrd, who wrote one of my favorite AB stories ever (and didn't finish it), has been having troubles and guilt feelings about being an adult baby and has decided to try to stop it. He's withdrawn all his stories from the Web and is breaking contact with all his mailing lists and such.

When I was in high school and college I was troubled with such feelings and thought that I was alone, and a freak, and sick, and all that. Then I found out there were others like me who didn't think this about themselves. And I promised that I was never going to do that to myself again, since I hated that feeling. For a few years I struggled with the spiritual meaning of it all. I'm not going to tell you what to believe, but I just basically decided that since it doesn't hurt anybody for me to put on diapers and whatever, I'm not doing anything wrong.

I have no idea what's going on in Dickie's life, so I can't judge him, and it's not as if I'd feel comfortable doing that anyway. I just want to say that I hope that whatever path he takes leads him back here, stronger and wiser. I hope I haven't heard the last of him.

Hey, look at this! Babymako just told me that the Baby Pride Pin symbol is now freely available at Share The Pride! That means that you can put it on your web page, print it out and have a button made of it, etc., though of course he and MommyHAS would prefer, I'm sure, that whatever use you make of it furthers growth and community among AB/DLs.

Well, I had a pretty good Thanksgiving -- how was yours? I spent most of the day in my footed sleeper and diapers. I was usually wet, too. When dinnertime came around, I took a shower and got dressed up, no diapers at all, and we went out with our friends to a nice restaurant for a Thanksgiving buffet. My wife didn't want me to even wear my training panties. She thinks I look better when I don't wear them -- she think I look fat with them on. Maybe she's right. Most people don't look at someone with bulky underwear and think "diapers" -- they just think "fat." But anyway, when I got home, I put my diapers and sleeper right back on. I'm running out of Abriforms ... and they don't make them like this in the USA anymore. I need to get more diapers, but what kind? Hmm.

I just heard from Kim -- her Yahoo group got deleted! I'm sad! Stupid Yahoo! It's like as soon as you get something good going, there are people who come out of the woodwork who try to tear it down. But before that, you're too small for anybody to care. Well I'm apparently too small for people to care, but you know what? I don't care either! I'm going to do what I'm doing anyway. I know the BBIF list isn't on Yahoo and can't get shut down the same way, and if I need to I can start my own mailing lists here on liljennie.com, which aren't likely to get shut down because I'm paying money for the service. As they say, you get what you pay for, and in the case of Yahoo, that's diddly/squat.