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A Poem on the Occasion of Christmas Eve

Posted in Angus, Calvin, Calvin Coolidge, Holidays, Penguins!, Saints, Sarah, Sweet Pea on December 24, 2007| 4 Comments »

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and though Pru was squrimin’

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Baby Update

Posted in Angus, Calvin, Married Life, Names, Pregnancy, Saints, Sarah, Sweet Pea on November 20, 2007| 4 Comments »

Please accept my apologies in advance if this post is slightly incoherent; I’ve been more-or-less up for about 72 hours.  Just so nobody is worried – Sweet Pea has been born.  Her real name is Prudence Victoria Dwyer.  She and Sarah are both doing well.  They’re still at the hospital, but will hopefully be sent home tomorrow.   Since we’ve been moved from the labor and delivery wing to the maternity wing I now have to abide by visiting hours (albeit slightly expanded ones for dads) and am thus home blogging, dealing with an even more emotionally needy than usual Calvin, and being about to fall asleep.  I’m going back to the hospital first thing tomorrow morning, hopefully to return with mama and baby.

Thank you to the medical staff of New York Downtown Hospital, everyone who included us in their prayers and all those members of the CT who stopped by and lent a hand (you know who you are).

Rest assured, there will be many, many photos, but not right now.  I’m only one (very, very tired) man!

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Last Sunday of Ordinary Time, Indeed

Posted in Angus, Pregnancy, Saints, Sarah, Sweet Pea on November 18, 2007| 6 Comments »

When next we speak, dear blogosphere, Sweet Pea will be out (and, hopefully, home). We’re heading over to the hospital now, to start the induction process. Not the Pitocin right away; we’re starting with something that encourages dilation and effacement with the hopes that this’ll get contractions going on their own.

Your prayers would be greatly appreciated. Gerard Majella, Raymond Nonnatus, Margaret of Antioch – the whole crew – we could use a little assistance. Please, everyone, know your efforts are appreciated.

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EDD +6 (Li’l Help Edition)

Posted in Catholicism, Holidays, Names, Pregnancy, Religion, Saints, Sarah, Sweet Pea on November 17, 2007| Leave a Comment »

Today is the feast of Sarah’s patron saint, St. Elizabeth of Hungary. (She was going to choose Pope St. Gregory the Great, the patron of music, students and teachers, but her CCD director in a weird combination of difference feminism and rigid adherence to traditional gender roles insisted she go with a female saint.)

Now, I’m not saying that causing the baby to come today would be a great way for someone to show that they have a lot of juice in the heavenly court, or that somebody might get some cool onomastico action if she made that happen…. Nope, not saying that at all….

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