Saturday Morning with the Maloneys
Spent a marvelous Saturday morning with some dear friends of mine. I knew Bob and Ann before they were married and watched as they met, courted and finally got married. They asked me to take some shots of them and the two girls the adopted and I simply couldn’t say no.
Whatta Week…
I’m sitting next to my wife with the baby in her arms after a pretty tiring day. After a week’s blur of doctor’s appointments, trips to the pharmacy and paging through volumes of insurance forms, we are really feeling the fatigue. Julia has had a lively day where she stayed awake almost the whole morning […]
Little Bag O’ Sugar
A variant on the old Sesame Street tune: One of these things is just like the other! We have had some real encouragement over the last 24 hours. The visit with the hematologist yesterday went very well. Dr. Jamil has been watching Julia’s platelet condition over the past couple of weeks (you can read the […]
A Special Visit and a Loud Holler!
Happy 10-10-10 people! Julia’s actual due date (the day before) came and went with little fanfare, and she is continuing to feed and grow well, albeit a little slowly. We are hoping that now that her feeding schedule has turned to a more on-demand cadence, her weight gain will be more robust. We are also […]
So Far, So Good…
I took a couple of days off, putting down my camera and computer, and simply enjoyed the new addition to the family. A new rhythm is beginning to develop in the house, and I can’t express how marvelous it is to have Julia home. There is not a lot of sleep; we just haven’t gotten […]
Homegoing
It amazes me that a child that was watched and nurtured by a team of highly trained health professionals has now been entrusted to a clueless white guy. It’s probably mitigated by the fact that he has a very attentive wife and a registered nurse mother-in-law with 40+ years’ experience in his corner. Yeah, that’s […]
Best Laid Plans…
Well, we thought we had all of the stars lined up, but our Julia has decided she’s not going to wait until her teens to drive us crazy. Before she was discharged, there was one hoop our girl needed to jump through. And she unfortunately ended up in “face plant” territory on this one. I’ll […]
Goin’ to School and Getting a Surprise
Julia’s just over a week old and she’s already going to school. Grandma Nancy is a fantastic addition to the support system that has been surrounding our family. A nurse with 48 years’ experience, she has not taken the easy road into retirement. She is on the faculty at the School of Nursing at Texas […]
Logan
A quick photo session for a brave little guy.
Grandma Nancy’s in Town
8:15 pm: Nancy Sue Torian-Goodman, mother of my wife Jocelyn and grandmother of my daughter Julia, landed on the fifth floor of the South Tower at William Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak. Words cannot describe how everything feels like it’s coming together. For the first time in over a week, I have seen my wife […]