Every time I get a moment to curl up with my laptop I fall asleep in seconds due to exhaustion and being on a lot of drugs, so I have been working on this post for an entire week.

I’ve gotten so many lovely emails, comments, and things in the mail that I need to say how freaking THANKFUL I am to everyone. I love you all. I have also gotten a lot of different questions, so I thought I’d do an FAQ of the last very busy week. It was such a sweet, emotional time I’m not publishing a birth story, I want to keep that between my husband and myself, so this is as close as it gets.

(Very handy-dandy universal pacifier clip made by Kerflop, ADORABLE cap courtesy of Chris of Chris Knits.)

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Jon? When you’re at the store I need you to get some frozen bags of peas for MY BOOBS!. And a large head of cabbage so I can use the leaves on MY BOOBS! Oh, and don’t forget antihistamines-they will help MY BOOBS! dry out faster. And before you go can you get my pink sports bra out of the dryer to help support MY BOOBS! and then you to need help with these ace bandages I have to wrap MY BOOBS! in.

Anything else?

Yes. Go get the baby and feed him before he wakes up. When he cries it makes MY BOOBS! hurt.

You kind of have a one track mind today, huh?

You would too if your testicles were suddenly 4 times bigger and you had to walk around with frozen vegetation strapped to them all day. Although, I WILL say that I now have waaaaay more sympathy and understanding for what you and men in general go through in daily life.

Really? What’s that?

Now you aren’t the only one of us that can’t think about anything else but MY BOOBS!

P.S. Tee Hee

P.P.S. There is so much I want to write but it’s still slow going recovery-wise over here. We’re home, and I get to sleep in my own bed, which is beyond wonderful. My Little Sweetpea is the happiest, most lovely, soft, beautiful, fabulous thing in the world. It was TOTALLY worth all the hell getting him here.

P.P.P.S. No. I am not posting a photo of MY BOOBS! on the internet. Let’s just say that they are very…impressive, and leave it at that.

P.P.P.P.S. I WILL leave you with a moment of baby zen. The Little Sweetpea comes home:

Aaron Michael Choate

May 19th, 2009

10:17 pm

7.0 lbs 21 inches

I’m so sorry for the delay. I didn’t want to say anything until I could say exactly what I wanted to say, but I am having a pretty difficult recovery. My levels are really low and I’m on so many drugs I keep crashing and falling asleep every time I try to write or am not busy with baby.

So, words will have to wait.

Just know they are there.

And they are joyful.

More joy than I ever thought would be possible for me to feel again.

I love him so much.