Mommy’s new toy, my very first Mother’s Day Present, I present to you my Nintendo DS Lite, presented to me on its launch date:

Somehow appropriate – a game system on Mother’s Day.  I can amuse myself until my son gets old enough to need amusing.  Two gifts in one.

It’s also white, sleek and trim – the iPod of the portable game system.  I have had Lancome compacts that were thicker.  It has wireless capabilities and Opera is working on browser functionality in a game cartridge.  This means I will hold off buying that Dell Axim.  The main reason I wanted a PDA is to catch my email on the road, but I CANNOT bring myself to enter the Blackberry Paradigm.  I work with pharmaceutical execs and government regulatory wonks who would have to have their Blackberries surgically removed from their thumbs.  I have doggedly resisted being universally available to any of them.  But negotiating contracts and answering inquiries from the FDA on what is, for all intents and purposes, a Gameboy, appeals to my sense of whimsy.  I may have to grow up, but I don’t have to grow old.