favourite spots our cats
like to sleep on

Tess
on clean clothes
on my lap
curled up beside me in bed
on the newspaper i am trying to read

Gump
beside the heater
on top of the computer monitor
at the foot of the bed on top of the covers

It's been a week of travelling back and forth between home and the hospital. Two, three times a day, and then collapsing exhausted into bed late at night.

Matthew has been released from the neo-natal ward tonight. He was in an incubator until Friday. Deb has been in hospital all this time to, getting better each day, but still in pain at times. But, both are coming home tomorrow afternoon!

It's been an overwhelming, humbling, satisfying experience to hold him in my arms the past few days. To feed him his bottle. To nestle him on my shoulder, his cheek resting warmly against mine.

I guess it's one of the most commonplace experiences people have, and yet it's unique and magical.

When he was brought up to Deb's room tonight, to stay there with her, we sat and looked at each other. Up to then he had been cared for by the nurses in neo-natal. Now it's our job. We wondered where the manual was, the online help, the 0800 helpdesk. We can't find them!

I think we'll be good parents though.  We'll make it up as we go, but I think we'll be ok.

Apologies for the lack of entries over the past week, and the shortness of this one. I've been exhausted. Guess I'm gonna have to get used to it.