I'm sorry to hear

about your nephew. You think you're out of the woods when the prenatal tests come back all normal. You think you're out of the woods when the baby's born with all the fingers and toes and enough oxygen. But the first time they're sick you realize you're never out of the woods.

I was sitting in the old family rocking chair that is my grandmother rocked my dadf in, and Carolyn crawled up in my lap to tell me something. I rocked her back and forth and she said "I'm only pretending to be a baby on your lap, you know." I said "Yeah, I'm only pretending to be a mom with a little baby in my arms." She smiled; her eyes slowly fluttered shut.