Life

Once again I have not kept with my original goal of writing every week... my bad... Life is pretty much the same for me. Nothing has yet to top the excitement of Lena's arrival. (not unitl Matt gets home for mid-tour that is....) I really could not have imagined how quickly I have fallen in love with my little niece. Seems that everyday I love her more than the day before. One thing that has truely caught me off guard is that I have lost all ability to remember the Nursing basics of caring for newborns. This is quite odd because everyone says it happens when you have your own kids.... who knows what I'll be like then! For example, one night while staying with Julie and Mike, I was responsible for the midnight feeding. So little Lena is sucking away at her bottle and starts coughing. (She often does this cause she drinks too fast) Almost instantly a little panic ran through my body. I was thinking 'Oh no, shes not gonna stop, shes gonna keep choking, what will I do, Julie and Mike are asleep, it's up tp me.' Then, she stops and everything is back to normal, and we get back to the feeding. My next thought is 'Geez Amy, you are a Nurse, you know what to do, you had all the classes, don't worry so much.' So Lena finished off her bottle with a great big "baby man burp" and I put her back to bed all snuggly and with a full belly and off to bed I went. Yet my worries had not ended.... I thought to myslef 'I better go check her one more time and make sure she laying just right.....no blankets near her face, head to the side....' So I crept back into the room and there she was sound asleep, safe, and warm. The next day I told Julie about all of this and she had a little laugh at me, but she understood.

Although Lena is wonderful, the highlights of my days continue to be talking to Matt. He has been incredibly busy the past few weeks. Lots of flights and tons of paper work, and doing stuff for other people. He has expressed to me many times that on mid-tour we are sleeping in everyday. My respones of course is I don't care what we do just as long as we are together, (yes, cheesy I know, but true) and most of you know I don't ever mind having to sleep late! So, the countdown to mid-tour continues....