Real quick update….

As of this moment, there will be two dates that will forever be sewn into my puny memory (remember, friends have been calling me Pappy for years): January 19, 2007, the day our son was to be born, and December 21, 2006, the day our son will be born; a month earlier than expected and a day that I never thought would actually arrive. After our doctor’s visit this afternoon, the final decision was made to bring li’l Peters into the world early. Not a decision I was expecting. We left the doctor’s office with more than wintry cloud cover overhead; it felt like a bomb had just gone off. Rattled, shocked, scared and more than a little out of sorts, Danielle and I, with vast uncertainty filling every pore on our faces, drove to eat lunch at a nearby Chili’s, thanks in large part to a gift card that a very generous lady in Texas gave us. A list of things to do. Tonight, we shall eat our final meal as a care-free childless couple, a meal we have jokingly dubbed The Last Supper. We leave home tomorrow morning for the hospital as a duo and will return home - whenever that is - as a familial trinity of sorts. Clueless through it all I assure you. I have no idea when I’ll be able to post again, and some of you may not care to read of such personal mentions, but I’m sure I’ll have things to say in due time. Partake if you so desire. Carry on with your warm cocoa to sip and love extra on your beloved.

Merry Christmas and happy Winter Solstice-

EP