officially an aunt…
I have been a horrible slacker about posting about this, but can’t really apologize for that because the last week has been crazy and very draining. That, and I think most of the people who check this site already know anyway.
On Wednesday Oct 10, my sister delivered my nephew Iain James by emergency c-section (5 lbs 10 ounces, 18.5″ long). He is a cute little guy, you can see photos here. My sister developed HELLP syndrome, so the situation was very serious on Wednesday morning and we are all very thankful to God for working everything out. And very thankful that Jim made Gill go to the hospital when she did. They just got home yesterday and my sister’s blog has more of the details of what the past week was like for her.
Last wednesday I drove down to wappingers at 4:30 in the morning, felt like a long trip cause at that point we weren’t sure how she was doing. So, to spare my sister having to read what was actually going through my head then (cause she has had a hard enough week as it is), I won’t go into details and will just say that I was very worried, there was a lot of prayer going on, and it was a rough trip for me. Huge relief when I got to my parent’s and found out they were both ok. Went to visit them later in the day, but pretty sure my sister doesn’t remember much because she had a lot of morphine that day. But I felt better seeing that she and the baby were doing ok. Then I spent friday at the hospital with my mom and gill and helped them out with stuff (which was good, cause the nurses weren’t all that helpful that day).
Then I came back and spent most of the weekend doing homework (cause I have tons of it every week for one of my classes) and then got back to work this week. Had a nice time at the kulps playing poker and such on sunday night, which I really needed after the week I had had 
I am really drained from everything and really need to rest, but don’t see that happening anytime soon since I have more homework and midterms coming up. Oh well…there’s always december…