Lydia and I are in the middle of week 8 of maternity leave.  With Lydia, every day is different, but here was our day yesterday.  Poor grammar is deliberate.

I just found out this evening that a dear friend and inspiration, Kathleen Lundy, was murdered in Huntsville, AL.  The WHNT article and 48 WAFF say that police are still looking for the shooter.  

In the days leading up to and right after Lydia’s birth, while we were mostly occupied with other things, my dear sister Joan and her family were here for a visit!  Before Lydia’s birth, we were able to do a few dinners with family and walk over to the nearby park one evening.  Then, the […]

After being in Irvine for about 6 months, we’re starting to feel more settled.  However, as predicted, Lydia has successfully un-settled us… in a good way!  While we are having fun on our adventure out here, seeing and doing many things that we otherwise would have had to pay a fortune in vacation dollars to […]

We’ve been “off the grid” a bit lately, enjoying the adjustment to having two little ones about!  So far, Lydia hasn’t been *too* rough on us, as far as sleep goes.  She averages 3-hour stretches at night, which is enough for some much-needed REM sleep, so we are counting our blessings there.  We think that […]

We finally got to take Lydia home yesterday!  She never completely got up to 80 mL at each and every feeding, but she is very close, and she has been nursing well during the past several days, so we think that made the doctors feel better about discharging her.  One of her latest nurses, Wilfreya, […]

We all went to see Lydia today, and she is just doing great!  She has all of her IV’s out, and the only cords still attached to her are the leads that are measuring her breathing (which are now reading as completely normal), as well as a small tube in her nose that this there […]

As we eagerly await Lydia’s return home, and especially now that things have been looking “up,” I’m feeling ready to share Friday’s birth story.  Here it goes!

We are at day 5 and it appears we will pass by all the cousin birthdays!  

So, we are at Due Date +1.  Baby’s arrival is still pending.  With arrival imminent, we’ve set up a last-minute guessing pool…