Thank you!

Thank you, everyone, for your kind words.  My heart is overflowing!

Everything is going quite well.  It’s amazing how one learns how to care for a baby, and how it sort of comes naturally, once you get over the fear of "breaking" her!  All my life I’ve tried to be gentle with things and not break them, to no avail.  ("Love Poem" by John Frederick Nims?  The poem is about me.)  But I find that Evangeline is resilient and apparently doesn’t think I’m rough.  This was one of my greatest fears, and now it’s gone.

Pictures will follow soon!  I love her more than I could have imagined, more than I had hoped (I had some worries during pregnancy — what if I don’t like my baby, etc.  How could I have even thought it?)

Just amazing.  Life is…amazing.

Oh!  The day before she was born I officially received my diploma.  I now have a masters’ degree in history, w00t!

In the hospital.

At Mum’s house.

Me, my mum, grandmother, and of course, Evie!

Ivan, his mum and her boyfriend, the other grandparents!

My best friend, Uncle Chris.

I call this one "Oh Dear…"

Sleeping angel.  Raising the roof, or practicing weightlifting.

Famous Laila and Evie self-portrait.  In the car!

Daddy!

Thinking.