My big boy is even bigger now...

Ten years ago, I gave birth to Daniel at Kingston General Hospital, at 7:41AM, after a completely unremarkable 6-hour birth. I was attended by three midwives (primary, secondary and student) and observed by a fourth year medical student who had asked for permission to see what midwife-attended births were like. It's a bit ironic to me that although we had expected hospital births to be far more frantic than home births, when we did do a home birth three years later with Justin, it made Daniel's birth seem the epitome of serenity. Probably due to the sheer number of people (including two toddlers) present for the home birth, as well as the rather rushed 3-hour timeline ;)

My mom had driven down from Montreal to see me, and was somewhat disconcerted to get to the hospital around noon and be informed that I had checked out already.

"Are you sure? Didn't she... wasn't she here to have a baby?"

"Oh yes, she had the baby. Then she went home."

Being from the days of Twilight Sleep and week-long maternity ward stays, my mother was thrown for a bit of a loop. And thrown for even more of a loop when she reached our house and I answered the door, holding her five-hour-old grandson :)

( Daddy and Daniel at four months, as I have no e-copies of Newborn!Daniel pictures )

( Daniel's Naming Party )

Open Letters

Dear Global Warming:

Come back. I beg you.

::sob::

Yours,
Chilled To The Bone

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Dear Stephen Colbert:

I love you.

Wishing I Was Yours,
An Adoring Fan

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Dear flist:

OMG STOP POSTING PICTURES OF DANIEL RADCLIFFE semi-NAKED!!

Yours,
Eyes Splorked Out With Fork

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Dear Justin:

You are this close to being given away to the next circus or roving Gypsy band that passes through Ottawa.

Fuming,
Mama.

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Dear flist:

OK, can't imagine anyone still reads any of my L&O fics, but just in case anyone does, here's a meme thats been doing the rounds:

Give me one of my own stories, and a timestamp sometime in the future after the end of the story, or sometime in the past before the story started, and I'll write you at least a hundred words of what happened then, whether it's five minutes before the story started or ten years in the future.

I think they're all here: 24 L&O fics and one very lonely HP.

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That is all.



ETA: I'm kidding about the Radcliffe pictures. Any sanity loss I was going to suffer, I suffered when I clicked on the first link yesterday, and most of you have been very good about the warning labels. So, carry on :)