We’re taking things slowly today, our first Christmas as a family of four. The sky is clear and blue, but there’s still snow on the ground from the storms we had these last two weeks. Hope you are all well and are able to enjoy this day with those you love. We miss our families, [...]
Austin and I have redesigned litabug.com! Hope you like the new look! There’s also a new slide show format in the works that will make it easier to navigate through the photos, but it’ll be awhile before that comes out.
I can’t believe that Maggie is finally here, and that tomorrow is Christmas Eve! We’ll be [...]
My Dad is here helping out for these first days. He’s been helping with meals, keeping things tidy, and hanging out with Sam while I take care of Maggie and Austin tries to catch up on his work. Thank you, Pop Pop!
Margaret Evelyn Matzko
Born 12/17/07, 9:51am
7lb, 13oz, 20.5 in
Austin posted her first photos here: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/blog/2007/12/17/welcome-maggie/
She is sweet, quiet but alert, long and willowy, with a cone head and a dark red birthmark on one side of her face. She is getting the hang of feeding (the first and most important skill she has to learn). Big [...]
We have been in the hospital since the wee hours of Sunday morning, experiencing something vastly different from Sam’s dayplanner-perfect (breech) c-section birth. In the maternal tradition of my family, this is going to be about endurance. Long. Slow. Unprogressive.
Nice to have wireless connection here so Austin can accomplish things, and so I can [...]
So few days stand between us and the arrival of our new little family member. She stretches and strains for more room, not knowing that soon she’ll be in a wide, strange, wintery world, the voices she knows well becoming suddenly crisp and strident, brightness overwhelming her little eyes.
Big brother Sam is fond of the [...]
