November 3, 2009: Liesl Begins to Recover

I woke up to the phone ringing.  I was really exhausted.  I answered to phone to discover that it was PayPal.  It was PayPal calling to tell me that $1,000 had been stolen from my PayPal account which ties directly to my bank account!  Argh.  Not a nice way to start the day.  We’ve had …

November 2, 2009: Liesl Is Still Not Well

Liesl is still sick today. Today marks one entire week since she first started getting sick.  A whole week!  That is a long time in the life of a baby.  Her nurse practicioner had made a big point of saying that this was a twenty-four hour stomach bug and that it couldn’t be the flu …

November 1, 2009: Working Overtime on a Sunday

How can it be November already?  This month (and this year) have just flown by.  Liesl turns one year old later this month!  And we have a trip to Walt Disney World coming up in a few weeks too!  I can’t believe how quickly that has snuck up on us.  It feels like I never …

October 30, 2009: Liesl Has a Better Day

It was about three o’clock in the morning when we got home from the hospital.  What a long night.  No real sleep for us.  Maybe three hours at best.  No sleep for poor little Liesl either.  What a rough night she has had. I was hurtin’ when I got up to start work this morning.  …