Home, Sweet, Home!

Wednesday evening Steve and I went and had a belated birthday dinner of steak, salad and baked potatoes. It tasted so good after all the fast food etc. Thursday we were prayerfully anticipating a good report from the overnight test and around 2pm or so that’s what we received! The apnea test showed no signs of apnea or a couple other things I can’t remember and since there had been no episodes since early Wednesday morning, the on call pediatrician had submitted discharge papers!

By the time we left the hospital it was after 4 and we determined it would be too hard to get packed and on the road in enough time to get all the way back home by dark. We went back to spend our first night together as a family in the hotel. Not much sleep was had by mom or baby for that matter! Dad got a little more but by 6am mom woke Dad for the trade off so she could get a few winks.

We left baby town at about 10am Friday morning and reached our home sweet home at 8:30pm that evening. Two 1/2 days later than planned, but we were home! There were plenty of baby stops, for feeding and changing and almost as many mommy stops for potty breaks, plus a 3 hour traffic jam in the Seattle area and an ever so brief stop at Walmart to pick up some more formula.

Our dogs were very excited to see us but had been taken very well care of by our pet sitter/friend Tara-who graciously took care of them the few extra days at no cost! Thank YOU Tara!!

My sista friend and Molly’s Aunt Carrie had administrated the process of letting carpet cleaners in and showing them the rooms we needed etc so we would come home to a nice clean carpet. She also was instrumental in letting friends and family know, via email and phone calls all the updates along the way- she also left a lovely bouquet of roses and a balloon bouquet to welcome us home-THANK YOU so much for everything!!

Friend and house cleaner Alice V was able to come and get the house clean for us as well.(I just didn’t want to bring Molly home to a dirty house!)

My dear Aunt Pat and cousin Elaine had come and decorated the house-outside and in with everything from streamers, helium balloon bouquets and banners to a beautiful bouquet of long stem pink roses complete with a pink fuzzy stork! Thank you both-it was so neat to come home to such a festive welcome!