Saturday AM thoughts

Good morning sun! How was your week long vacation? We missed you while Fay was around. She was a bad babysitter.

My thoughts go out to our friends Murph and Maruxa, and Casey and Angela, who are dealing with Fay's floodwaters in Sanford. May the floodwaters recede!

This week has gotten quite a bit better from beginning to end as far as our feelings of confidence in parenting Aidan. Not that we're really all that confident yet, but we're not emotional basketcases anymore.

Yesterday we did get sent by our pediatrician to an urgent care peds clinic. Dr. Cobian found a couple tiny, tiny pustules, and so playing it safe she sent us there to get it cultured. They were so tiny they couldn't get any cultures of them, but the doc there prescribed a little ointment for us to put on.

I have yet to figure out the financial ramifications of having a baby. We have spent so much in copays for visits and meds over the last two weeks! I'm hoping we reach that point where we have so many medical expenses they count a little extra on our tax return. Of course, that doesn't help us this month.

Yet we consider ourselves financially stable for the moment, stable enough to commit ourselves to The Generous Life Campaign. Check it out. Incredible. I'm so proud to be a part of this.

Many people are still coming forward or asking from afar how we are doing, and how they can help us as we learn to be new parents. Thank you all so much for your love and support. We really are doing OK for now, but if we can use another meal or two, we'll let you know. One way you can set our hearts at ease is to help out Murph and Maruxa when their time comes. They are great friends and have been a wonderful support for us in this time. We're excited Aidan will have little Maya only a few weeks younger than him to play with at church.

I've always loved the word "Shenanigans". Like when Matt Foley says on SNL, "What did you hope to accomplish by these shenanigans?"

I like ending on that completely random note.