Great loss

I don't know how I missed the entry.... well, I do. I was working all day yesterday and didn't read my friends page. A woman from one of my due date communities lost her sweet, beautiful daughter yesterday. I have been crying my eyes out at work. I cannot even imagine the grief. I have never met this woman, but I respect her so much and I loved her stories and pictures of her little girl.

This puts every difficult day in perspective. I will take a hundred difficult nights of crying and sore nipples and getting kicked in the belly and a hundred zombie days of sleep deprivation if it means another day of little Bennett's smiles and snuggles.

What is remembered lives.

Vacation Effort, Take Two

When in Australia, Adam and I have decided to take a private vacation, a vacation within a vacation. It's a honeymoon of sorts. We have three nights (I know! three whole nights away from Bennett, I will either die of the distance or forget he exists in a blur of uninterrupted sleep) at this Japanese ryokan and a day scheduled at this bathhouse.

I'm so excited. And I'm so afraid I'm jinxing it by posting about it, even though I don't believe in this sort of jinxing. Last time we made luxurious plans for a getaway a certain little boy decided to arrive early.

My mother called tonight to discuss plans. There is a jaunt to northern Victoria for wine tasting. I'm so excited for this trip. Have I mentioned that yet?