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If all had gone as planned, today would be one of two days. While that sounds a little weird, it makes sense since (ooh, that sounds neat when read aloud) the plans were to be finalized around this weekend. There were two expected options. Number one, Mollie could have been induced and the baby girl born today. The second possible plan is much more ironic. It was thoroughly possible that Mollie would have been induces on the Friday past, making today four days since the baby would have been born and quite likely the day the baby was sent home. Ironic, you ask? That doesn’t sound ironic!


Not until you look at how things have actually happened. It has been 17 days since Annaliese was born. For more than two weeks, we have had to travel across town numerous times a day just to see her. But as if it could have been fit into the original plans, our baby girl may be coming home today!

We have not had official word yet (something about the doctors taking weekends and holidays off), but Anna seems to have met the requirements they set for her on Friday; eat on her own schedule and gain weight for three days.

So how does a father celebrate the bubbly feelings that he is trying to control inside his belly; bubbly feelings that keep welling up into his chest, forcing their way into his throat and trying to escape his mouth as laughter and his eyes as tears? He takes the day off. I was robbed of my Labor Day day off because, well, I didn’t have to work . . . that’s not really a complaint, it’s just that I don’t work on Mondays (No, no, stop feeling sorry for me.) That blessing stems from the plans that I will be watching Annaliese on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, while Mollie (once she goes back to work part-time) will watch her on Tuesdays and Fridays. Of course, until she goes back to work, we have the added benefit of both being home on M, W & F for a couple of weeks! It’s a good thing I like my wife!

Well, that’s it for new news (hey, that’s the third time this post that I used the same (or a very similar) word together). We are hopeful that we are not overly hopeful of our girl’s homecoming. I have tried hard to temper my excitement, but it was mostly that, trying. In older, staling news, I have not had any takers in my challenge from yesterday. If you happened to miss yesterday post, please keep reading.

p.s. To Annaliese Elizabeth Tinúviel: Please come home today!!!