This is my new grandbaby.  She was born at 456pm yesterday.  Daddy says she’s smaller than a family sized bag of chips.  Which she is, actually. Mom is holding up extremely well and looks good.  Dad is exhausted but happy, and amazed that he is a dad.

My charge nurse arranged for me to leave work early so I could go to be with the family during the labor but I was too late, she was born already.  I still was ecstatic to be able to see her; otherwise I wouldn’t be able to visit until they came home which is supposed to be tomorrow.

Here’s to life in the midst of economic meltdown.