t's my website, so I suppose I can post anything I like on it. The following is entirely self-serving, and probably thoroughly dull to all but my family and friends. Simply stated, at 7.20 pm last evening, with a full moon peering through a partly cloudy sky, at Cedars hospital in Los Angeles, our daughter-in-law, Heidi, and our oldest son Alan became parents, again. Amelia (Mia for short) arrived weighing 9 lbs. 6 ounces. We make 'em big...and pretty!
I remember when Alan was born, fathers were not even permitted in the room when the child entered this world. Now, Alana and I were there with them and even watched Alan cut the umbilical. Today she will meet her two sisters.
There was a light drizzle early this morning when I went out to harvest my scattered newspapers.
Made coffee and then read them thoroughly and rapidly ,so that I can get to the maternity floor.
I don't remember anything I read! Nothing. I'm sure I read about the falling dollar and the likelihood of a postponement of the proposed election date in Iraq and the unrest in the Ukraine about the rigged election. I know there were stories involving the insurgents in Faluja and elsewhere, but it all seems so distant - just for today. I shan't tell "Mia", yet, about the election results that so disappointed her parents and grandparents, or even the price of gasoline; that can wait until she gets home tomorrow.
Today is for her.
Thank God, she was born healthy and into a loving family.