I know I said I was going to update everyone on my parents' visit, but I haven't had any photos to show anyone because my mother hasn't sent me any. Sorry about all that. But I do have other news...
Yesterday afternoon my sister gave birth to a little girl. Some of you know, there's a bit of drama associated with my sister, her pregnancy, the baby's father, my relationship with my sister, etc, but for now I'm forgetting about all of that because it's always exciting when there's a new addition to the family.
I haven't gotten to see a photo of her yet because she's still in the nursery. There was some trouble during the labor and she came out blue with some respiration problems, but last I heard, she's much rosier though still has a massive cone-head. Apparently she has a full head of thick blond hair which is a bit unique and she's got blue eyes which will stay since both parents have them.
Her name is Wintersong Jane (maybe Winter Song). Not my sister's choice, and it's left everyone scratching their heads a bit since she wasn't born (or conceived, ew) in Winter, but her father seems to think that he's mostly Native American (he's not) and has always wanted a daughter with that name. Whatever, I'm going to call her Winnie and I think that's really cute.
Throughout the whole labor (except for the first 10 hours when I didn't even know it was happening. Oh, and I found out from Facebook.) I had the phone, text and email to keep in touch with my parents and sister about what was going on. It made me think about how amazing and useful technology is. If this were 50-60 years ago, I wouldn't have known until I got a letter in the post about it, much less get updates every hour or so or even more frequently once the baby started coming.
Steve and I watched the movie Book of Eli last night and we really enjoyed it. If you haven't seen it, it takes place is a post-apocalyptic era where far fewer people live on Earth, with no infrastructure, no government and no ozone layer to protect Earth's inhabitants and allow plant life to grow. One of the lines in the movie when the main character is comparing the "old world" to the current one was "People kill each other now for things we used to throw away." Of course we can't throw away technology per say, but we definitely take it for granted, along with pretty much everything else we have.
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