Hello Bloggers,

Well this being a new mommy thing has kept me busy and left with little time to post – though I am still reading your blogs daily. For the most part we are all doing really well. Sometimes the sleep deprivation pushes me over the edge and it’s not easy being the milk mama night after night, hour after hour. But I am not complaining. I love the bonding Mr. E and I experience and I do fall back to sleep quickly. I just don’t know why he can sleep four hours at a time during the day and only 2 -3 hours at a time at night (perhaps I should just count my blessings that he sleeps 2-3 hour stretches at night).

A went back to student teaching last Tuesday and my mom came for the week. Mr. E and I had a lot of fun with my mom. We went shopping, out to lunch, and planned a ‘meet Mr. E party’ for when we go to the Cape next month. Mom spoiled us by buying take out (delivery, no less) every night! She does not have this luxury where she lives and loves to indulge when she visits us.

Mr. E continued his visiting when he meet my cousin and her partner yesterday and then spent this morning with my dad who drove out to visit for the day. He’s got another visitor coming this afternoon, one of my best friends from childhood. It’s so great to see all these people and to get to show Mr. E off, but I am also exhausted and plan to start implementing nap time starting tomorrow. I will nap at least once every day. I’ve only taken about two naps since he came home, and it’s starting to show…

I’ve written a bit in the past about our sick cat, Lou. He’s had digestive problems for four years and we’ve carried out an intense daily medical regimen for the last year and a half. When he got sick in December we were told the medicine was no longer working and our only option was surgery (seriously, the Vet would not talk about euthanasia – that’s a whole other story). After much thought A and I decided the next time he got sick we needed to put him down. We felt the surgery was extreme and his quality of life post surgery was questionable. He was doing really well, and had been off meds for two weeks, but yesterday he got sick really fast, and it was clear he was in so much pain that we could not make him wait till Monday when out Vet was open, so we opted to take him to an emergency animal hospital and had him put to sleep last night. It was really really really hard. Not a decision we made lightly, but we know we did the right thing. He was eerily quiet on the ride there (he usually cries and bangs around in his carrier when in the car) and didn’t make a peep once inside the hospital (he usually hisses upon entering the Vet’s office). I took his silence as a sign that he was ready to go, that he’d fought long enough. We’ll miss you Lou.