As with every week the last two months, most of my mornings are spend helping my daughter with the new baby while she does multiple carpools.  It never ceases to surprise me how fast these little ones grow the first year.  I wish they could stay small and cuddly a little longer but I'll take it for as long as I can get it. 

In the meantime, we're working on creating a cat closet for my daughter - you ask what is a cat closet?? A place for the litter box that doesn't smell up the whole house! LOL.  She had hers in the laundry room of their new house but it's at the opposite end of where one of the cats sleeps in their room so the former feral cat won't go past the kitchen so she needs to move it closer to the bedroom, hence, the new cat closet. 

Of course there was no closet where she's putting it. But, we did know from the survey that for some unknown reason, between her bedroom closet and the living room bookcases there is 18 inches of dead space.  WHY they didn't use that for a bigger master closet, I have no idea - but we decided 18 inches of dead space plus 15 inches of unwanted built in book case, would be just enough space for... a cat closet! 

My favorite handyman has been demoing and building for three days - it's looking good! 

here is the section of survey that showed the hollow space, and the bookcase in front and a close up of the case on the left that is going away. 

Unfortunately - it's still not finished - but - we have a few in progress photos - The first is the current state of the removed bookcase. The sheetrock still needs to be tape, bedded, and textured before it can be painted.  And the inside needs to have the floor put down and the walls put up - but you can see where the cat box can fit without issue! First shot is the view of the hall wall before we cut in for a door. 

I am still working away on Sweet Devotion and plotting for A Flicker of SOMETHING lol - but had to squeeze that in between helping a friend. On a general pre-emptive health check, she requested a calcium scan, which turned out to be twice as high as her previous one a few years ago, which led to the doctor doing a cardiac scan with dye, which showed two blocked arteries. Thankfully, all she needed were a couple of stents, but we were startled when the nurse said not to do anything with her right arm, no vacuuming, no pushing a grocery cart or if the clot breaks she could bleed out. Well, that was all we needed to hear to decide she was NOT going home alone after the 'simple procedure'.  But, despite having company for a few nights, I still managed to stay on track for word count! 

​Okay - time to get back to writing work! Will check back next week with the finished product! 

It seems having a baby in the family is the easiest way to notice how fast time is flying by.  They grow so fast. This week, my new granddaughter laughed for me! So much fun. I didn't realize she hadn't laughed yet for her mom, but at least I got a photo of it! 

I'm also overjoyed to have gotten my tax return done and filed almost a week early! That doesn't happen very often. I have no idea why it seems like human nature to wait for the last second to get important things done!  Are you a procrastinator or one of those organized folks who have their returns filed within weeks of the new year? 

Book news is chugging along. German Alohas released last week, and French Farradays release this week.  I'm pedaling as fast as I can! So far, I think Sweet devotion is coming along nicely.  

Here's a sneak peek - You might recognize a few folks from a favorite series. 

“Don’t pull him.”  Colleen Gleeson forced an easy smile.

The woman’s hands tightened anyway. The gelding lifted his head, ears flicking back, then forward, reading everything the rider hadn’t said out loud.
Colleen stepped in without breaking stride, one hand settling lightly against the woman’s calf, the other brushing her wrist. “Loosen it.”
“I am.”
She didn’t argue. They took two more steps. The horse drifted off the line, shoulder edging out, testing. Colleen adjusted the rider’s leg, just enough to shift her weight back where it belonged. “Again.”
The woman exhaled this time. Not much, but enough. The reins softened. The gelding’s head dropped a fraction.
“There.”
They moved forward, slow and even, dust rising under each step. The rhythm settled in—one beat, then the next—until the tension bled off and what had been work started to look like something easier. Even though it wasn’t.
Colleen walked beside them, close enough to correct, far enough not to interfere. This was it. Her last day under the tutelage of Hannah Farraday Johnson. Though not that much older than Colleen, Hannah had a reputation throughout all of Texas, the neighboring states, and often beyond, for running one of the best equine therapy operations. In the case of her uncle Connor Farraday, well, the man was known as the best horse breeder and trainer from shore to shore. If there was such a thing as a horse whisperer, Connor had that skill in spades.
Her wristwatch buzzed. Time was up. She cued the horse to halt with a shift of her weight and a quiet word. Her patient eased to a stop and sat for a moment before swinging down, landing with more confidence than she had a month ago, steadying herself briefly against the saddle before stepping away on her own.
"Good session," Colleen smiled.
“You’ll be meeting with me again next week.” Grinning as though she’d won the largest cupie doll at the state fair, Hannah strolled up.
The woman nodded, turned to Colleen and offering the first sincere smile Colleen had seen from her, spoke softly. “Thank you.” Without another word, she nodded and Hannah and limped away. To Colleen’s satisfaction, not nearly as pronounced as it had been when Colleen first arrived three months ago.
“We wish you could stay.” Hannah handed the horse’s reins over to one of the stable workers.
“I have to admit,” she fell into step with Hannah toward the main house. “I’ve been tempted.”
“But not enough.” There was no censure in Hannah’s tone, not even a hint of optimism.
“Honeysuckle is home. Between school, training, licensing, getting my hours, and… well, here,” she waved arm across the expanse of the Farraday operation, “I’m ready to go home.”
“Still planning to hang your own shingle?”
She nodded. “That’s the plan.”
“Horses?”
With a shrug, she tipped her head momentarily to one side. “That may have to wait.” There were certainly plenty of ranches with horse in her neck of Texas, but nothing like the set up Connor Farraday had. Of course, that didn’t mean that maybe some day…
“Have you talked to Alice Sweet? They’ve been doing a lot of improvements over there. Maybe that could work out.”
“Maybe.” She had thought the same thing. After all, it was upon the recommendation of Alice Sweet and in reverence of the Farraday patriarch Sean’s friendship with Charlie Sweet that she’d gotten this chance to train with the best.
At the front of the main house where Colleen had been staying, Hannah eyed the bed of her truck. “You’re all packed?”
“Yeah. I figure it’s like changing Band-Aids, easier in the end to just rip off the old one.
“Ouch.” Hannah cringed but still managed to smile. “So we’re an old bandaid, huh?”
“I didn’t mean it that way. I just meant, as excited as I am to go home, leaving here isn’t going to be easy.”
“Just so you know, you’re welcome any time. As a friend or a therapist. Whatever you want.”
“Thanks.” Colleen leaned forward and gave her new friend a tight hug. “I’ll remember that.”
“You’d better keep in touch!”
“You bet.” She stepped back, climbed into the truck, blew out a big sigh, and started the engine.
Hannah took a step back. Connor came out the front door and stood beside his niece.
She’d already said her goodbyes to Connor and his family after lunch, no point in starting that all over. She lifted her hand, waved at the two smiling Farradays, and pulled away. The windows went down. The radio went up. The gravel of Farraday's long drive crunched under her tires, then gave way to the standard West Texas blacktop.
The truck climbed a low rise and the land opened up the way it did out here — wide and unhurried, the sky taking up more room than anything else, the late sun burning everything copper and amber all the way to the horizon. Now her thoughts turned to her mom and dad, her sister in NEARTOWN, the Saturday afternoon corn hole games in the park, the delicious scents from the candle shop owned by her friend Jillian Sweet, the gossip queen, and everything about Honeysuckle that made her smile.
Resisting the urge to grab her phone and spent a good chunk of the drive chatting away with her sister, she rolled down the window a little further, let the warm air come in, and with a smile as wide as the Rio Grande, drove toward home.
How's that? Surprised? 

On the not so happy note, my cataract surgery I mentioned is postponed until July - why you ask- Would it surprise you if I said- a broken elevator? 

Yep - the elevator is broken and won't be fixed for six weeks. I'd have to walk up two flights of stairs every week for several weeks and since I couldn't breathe when I got to the top of the stairs we agreed, waiting was best. 

okay, that's it for this week, I have another busy week ahead and will post photos of the house reno then! 
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The new grandbaby weighed 7lbs 7oz four weeks ago - now - she's 10lbs 8oz - WOW - she is growing too fast!  I'd love to slow it down just a little! It is lovely though that unlike the previous grands, I get to watch this one grow day by day and I am very thankful that my daughter and her family now live walking distance to my house. 

Projects are all coming along - I am on schedule with Sweet Devotion releasing in May. I have the Farradays releasing in French this month. That's pretty exciting, though I have no idea how to get the word out in France and Canada! 

And as promised - here is the start of a new rehab project for my friend. I'll start with the kitchen - first photo is original kitchen - it was quite impractical. limited counterspace - the stove blocked access to much needed cabinet space - the hutch on the side wall was almost useless (original architect should have made it a pantry!) - and the laundry is in the garage. 

First stage is to demolish everything old to start fresh - next - tear down that false ceiling that was so popular decades ago and return it to a full 8' ceiling.  This is as far as we've gotten. The third photo shows the hutch removed (that's where the laundry closet will be - though we'll move the garage door and bump the closet into the garage a bit - but at least access will be from inside the house! 

On the health plan - guess whose having cataract surgery next Monday? I'm guessing my blog may be a bit late! Hope you'll forgive me.  We'll do one eye on Monday and then the other a couple of weeks later. I hadn't even realized I had cataracts, only knew that In order not to see things blurry I need my readers for everything from cell phones to seeing the food on my plate clearly.  It will be nice not to need readers AND a magnifying glass to read the tiny print on the back of supplement bottles LOL.  I think it will be fun! 

Seems this is catch up on my health week lol - Accompanied my husband to the hearing aid doctor and had my own hearing tested.  Listening in crowds is still a struggle at times, but apparently I'm within normal range - overall hearing ability is 92% and I'm using 88% so not a big enough gap for hearing aids, yet, but I promised my daughter as soon as they'll be helpful I will get them - and I will!  It drove me nuts for decades that my husband and my mother were deaf as doornails.  I refuse to do that to anyone. On top of that the hearing loss was probably a large contributor to mom's dementia.  If we could have convinced her they wouldn't make her look old (a fear of her generation) maybe we could have delayed the dementia decline.  I'll take this as a public service announcement to say - if you have hearing loss, even if you have to beg, borrow or steal, get hearing aids! 

Okay - that's it for me for the moment - will report back next week. 

I have no idea how time flies by so darn fast - but it does.  The baby is just growing like a weed - I know I'm going to blink and she'll be running around like my three year old, twirling dresses and showing off her red patent leather shoes! 

the week was also busy helping my friends daughter make her kitchen more practical - I showed you how we gave access to the house from the garage (Though I have no ideas why the builders sixty years ago didn't think that made sense!) -Now we're on to the kitchen, not a real remodel just a 'more sense' change. 

You'll see from the original photo - that was all there was for counter space and storage - no pantry (the old pantry now holds a stackable washer dryer) and heaven forbid you want to bake and cook at the same time! sooo - we moved the fridge to an open wall - added a refrigerator water line in case they get a fridge with an ice maker some day - adding a trash cabinet next to the fridge, a dishwasher and another cabinet - Don't you think this looks better?  I'm sorry I didn't remember to grab a nice photo when I was there yesterday seeing the final product but my friend took the two close up photos so you get an idea :)  - If you're wondering why there's a gap between the fridge and the cabinet - it's because that's a smaller 32 inch fridge and we had to leave room for the larger 36 inch in the future. 

On a personal note - I lost an entire pound - I know it's not much - but it's fun because i wasn't trying! Whether it's from all the walking I'm doing with the baby or because I'm too busy and eating less but I'll take it - I'll also be curious to see if i lose another pound next week! 

And just for the fun of it  - here's a photo of me with the baby and the teddy bear (that looks more like a monkey to me!) that my three year old grand thought I needed to hold since I was doing such a good job with the baby. ​

Now - television - since life has been a bit crazy and yes a tad stressful - I've started running an old television series in the background - The West Wing.  I don't remember it being quite so funny.  Though I suspect - much like Barney Miller (a favorite comedy of mine) that a lot of the subject and comments would be tabu in today's media. 

In the meantime - I hope everyone has read their copy of RYAN - I would love to hear from you here in the comments if you were happy with the Mariah resolution and the upcoming new branch of the Farradays - I'm hopefully it's going to be as much fun as the originals with all the cast of characters we love playing with in Tuckers Bluff! 

Okay- I'm calling it a day - so much to do.  Oh - and for the folks who like the remodeling stuff - I'm going to help another friend update her kitchen so I'll share that and try to do a better job of photographing! promise! 

Oh it's been a busy week for this little author!  lol.

I actually didn't have very  much grandbaby duty because the other grandma was in town for the week so I only visited one afternoon and then again yesterday.  Today, it's back to helping mode. I'll be on my way over in a few minutes to watch the baby while mama does morning carpool with the older ones.  She's coming along well enough that she can do morning drive, but by afternoon Pawpaw is doing pick ups - that's too much for her still.  Hard to believe it's already been three weeks since the baby was born, almost four. And already, she feels so much bigger and heavier! I just love the newborn stage and already I'm starting to miss it since she's more alert and squirmy LOL. 

I've been scrambling working on a bunch of translations - finally after almost three years of translating my books into German, we're doing French. I'm actually looking forward to having this done so someday I can do a booksigning in France.  Some of you may know I am actually conversational in French so it would be a load of fun for me to be able to meet readers and chat in person.  I'm also working on Sweet Devotion, the next book in the new K9 set of Honeysuckle Texas books set at the Sweet family ranch. By the end of April, we'll be starting on the new series. 

Did I tell you that we decided by majority vote of the fans to return to Hart Land and do the firefighter series? I should have those up and ready for preorder before summer. This will be the first time a series releases one book at a time instead of dropping the first two or three at once.  Hopefully no one will mind! 

​Most importantly, Tomorrow (or tonight if you preordered on amazon or Apple) Ryan Farraday will be available everywhere (he's already for sale on my website) 

Well - as you can see - never did get to finish the Blog on time! 

Yesterday with the baby was long - she slept on Oma most of the day and then when my granddaughter came home it was time outside with her - I think of the two siblings, she's the one feeling the most 'left out' - so we're all trying to make a point of one on one time with her - mine was yesterday from five to six pm. Then it was Pawpa's turn. 

here we have a couple of shots of happy Oma - and the weekend when pawpaw and the grands played in the hot tub - too cold for the big pool yet! it's not heated :) 

Then, to add to the massive to do list - A friend's daughter who lives in California has a house here in dallas and her property manager dropped the ball, so - guess who gets to step in and spruce things up a bit to make it more appealing to a renter? Yep - yours truly! I love doing this kind of thing but it makes things pretty busy - 

​For those of you who love before and afters - here are a few shots. The first photo is the dining area from the living room - you can see it's a solid wall. This is a one car garage house with no access to the house from inside the garage - I figure working single women want the safety of access to the house without going back outside and moms with kids don't want to lug the groceries around the house in the rain and cold - so - we added a door to the garage- that's the second shot - the third is the access from the garage - easy peasy! 

And of course the big news of the day - RYAN is here!   Run and get your copy - and let me know what you think of the Aunt Mariah resolution and the intro of Seamus!  And you can preorder Seamus too now! 

Cutting it short since I'm late!  Hopefully will be more caught up next week! 

To say that today did not go as planned - would be an understatement. Which means, instead of writing this at 11am, I'm writing it at 11pm. So very sorry. 

My days are mostly filled with new baby efforts. My daughter is doing great after her C-section, but still needs help a little longer - and of course, I'm loving every minute with the new little one.  Even though I have to share this week with my son in law's mom. 

For anyone wanting to read RYAN early - as promised - the last of the Construction Cousin books in Farraday Country is up for sale early on my website - click here to access it if you don't want to wait for the world wide release next week! https://store.chriskeniston.com/products/Ryan-p822671521  So far, I'm hearing that folks are loving how we wrapped up the family feud issue. I'm really happy to hear it because it took me this long to fully understand what happened. As usual, it wasn't until I was writing the scenes that the characters stepped up to the plate and told me what was happening! LOL - I love it when that happens, I just wished they'd spoken up a little sooner and saved me some stressful days and night lol!

For fans of my aloha series - i'm currently working on transforming my original series book Waikiki wedding into a clean and wholesome version-- I hope that's good news for some of you. 

Our next release is in May and I have to wrap my head around Sweet Devotion -  with every book an author writes, trying to keep the next one and the one after that and the one after that fresh, gets harder and harder. The number of ideas we have to toss away because - did that two books ago, or ten books ago, or in a previous series...or two - happens too often. Some times we hope that we can change an idea from another book or series around enough that it still seems fresh. After all, a kitchen fire and a brush fire are not the same thing, still, it's not getting any easier. But I'll keep doing my best as long as you let me! :) 

Since its pretty late for me and my restless leg syndrome is kicking in (always does when I'm tired) I'm calling it a night - 

Wishing everyone a happy St. Patrick's day! 

Oh how much fun it is to struggle out of bed with an hour less of sleep - NOT.  As much as I enjoy bright summer days lasting late in the day, I would prefer to only have it be bright till 8pm and stick to ONE time zone all year.  I truly love late days in the summer. More time to run errands, to brighten your mood, but then I feel for the small children who have to walk to school in the morning in the pitch dark of night.  I remember parents complaining the year that we didn't switch back because of the energy crisis.  Of course, back then mom's rarely drove car pool, but still. I'm not convinced the extra hour is worth doing that to our kids - BUT  - if that's the way the world wants to go, I'd be on board.  I'd be on board with anything to avoid switching back and forth twice a year. 

What would  you prefer? 

Back to book news.  Ryan is out with the review team so everything is rocking and rolling for release this month on the 24th!  Yay for the Farradays!  If you like early releases direct from my store- keep an eye on my facebook page, or just check the website after the weekend - the early release should be up, if not this weekend, by next tuesday at the latest. 

This is also a good week for German readers.  This week starts the release of books 1- 3 of the Aloha series in German.  Aloha was my first contemporary romance series. The way the whole thing got started is I have a friend who likes to scuba dive - so we went to the Big Island for her to dive. I of course do not like being 'in' the water so I stayed 'on' the boat. I looked up from reading, saw the captain doing pushups from the back and thought- hmm, I bet there's a romance in there. My friend and I brainstormed some ideas and Aloha Texas was born. The last photo below is later on Maui while making notes for Mai Tai Marriage, book number three.​

​Early in my career i wrote Women's fiction but Aloha Texas did so well that I was told I was to write romance now. It's pretty obvious to anyone who reads my newer stories that the first book was different - it was longer, more complex, and much more serious.  You can see the bridge between larger complex women's fiction books and the rest of the aloha series.  As the rest of this first series continues, it's easy to see my style emerging.  It will be fun to see what the German's think of it all! 

I'm writing this a little late because I'm still on burp and rock duty with the new grandbaby. Today we added a load of infant laundry to the chores - poor thing was out of sleepers! 

Okay- Off to work on Seamus and Sweet Devotion!  Have a good week! ​

I'm still a little flabbergasted that I made my deadline for Ryan - well- that's not totally true - I turned it into my editor five days late, but close enough for her to still deal with it and for the book to hit the shelves as scheduled late this month. whew!  

It was not easy - as many of you know, Ryan is the last of the Oklahoma clan - the Construction Cousins - and I needed to reveal the mystery of the family feud.  Considering I only had a whisper of an inkling of what the problem was, I was thrilled when the resolution worked out. I will admit, I was concerned Mariah wasn't going to tell me what the heck went wrong - but - it came together and you'll finally get to read it for yourself. 

In Ryan, you're also going to meet a whole new branch of the family no one knew about and I think you're going to love it.  You can thank my husband's Irish family for pulling it all together - If any of you saw my blog posts over the summer of visiting the birthplace of my husband's grandmother, you might recognize some of what will come up in the next collection of Farradays- I think you're going to like it - at least I sure hope so! 

We are continuing to put the Honeysuckle books into boxed sets - the next one will release in April.  The next Honeysuckle book will be delayed a month to May.  It was just too close to the wire for Ryan and I simply can't spit out a decent story that fast - AND - spend some time with my new grandbaby!  

Yep - imagine that - the author of family sagas actually likes family LOL.   We didn't know what we were having. My daughter and son in law wanted to be surprised this time - but we have a baby girl. 7lbs 11oz and 20 inches long. She's the smallest of the three because she came with a C-section, but she's a real sweetie.  They had thought she would be bigger - they thought she was bigger a week ago and since natural delivery for the previous two got a bit stressful and baby two actually got stuck - we went the safe route and I am glad to report mom and baby are both doing great. 

I'm not allowed to share any clear photos - but you'll get the drift here: 

Our next stop on this years big trip was Rio De Janeiro.  I always wanted to see Rio. I've had more than one relative live there for a few years because of their work but we never could make visiting work - so I finally got to visit! 

we stayed in a hotel at the famed Copacabana beach- You know it's going to be an interesting stay when the elevator is a work of art. Next thing you realize the hotel is so old that the ceilings are maybe ten or twelve feet high? Felt like we were in a palace! and the views from the room weren't bad either! 

or our second day in Rio - we did the typical tourist stops - Sugar Loaf (and much like the beach I have no idea why this little mountain is so famous lol) and Christ the Redeemer statue - for me this wasn't that big a deal because I've been to the same statue in Cali Colombia that is only a few feet shorter.  It was supposed to be cloudy and rainy our entire stay and yet - the sun kept peeking out and the rain mostly stayed away- though we did get a good shower at the Redeemer statue and had to wait for it to blow over in order to take the elevator back down to the train - this little writer was NOT doing 220 steps down :) 

And that pretty much wound up our trip - it was SO hot and exhausting in Rio - A lot of the reason was that even though most establishments all had central a/c - they kept all the doors and windows open too!  It was SO hard to just cool down for a little bit. As a result on our third day we opted to stay in our cool hotel room and enjoy the view from the window! LOL. 

All in all, it was a lovely trip with a good friend and crossed a few things off my bucket list! 

Now we're getting ready for grandbaby number three who should arrive this week! And of course getting all the book biz caught up.  Tomorrow is release day for the Sweets first box set - Honeysuckle Texas books 1-3.  If you have any friends who prefer box sets to individual books - let them know more of these are coming out soon!  And don't forget about Ryan coming next month - If you haven't put your preorders in - now is the time! 

And that's it for today!  

I'm curious - does anyone have one bucket list place they have always wanted to go? Post below in the comments! 

I'll start with a little business - had a wonderful time Friday night at the Galantine party - I gotta laugh - Still talking with my hands :) 

And for anyone with nothing to do tonight at 5pm pacific, 7pm central - pop over and join Sheila Roberts and myself for a little Monday night chat!  https://www.facebook.com/p/Sheila-Roberts-100044180452595/

Now - we return to the travels of a wandering author! LOL. 

From Buenos Aires we moved on to Iguazu Falls.  This water fall system is seven times larger than Niagara Falls and the largest system in the world - though there are taller waterfalls. The thing spans both Argentina and Brazil so we spent two days on the Argentine side and two on the Brazil side. 

The thing I will always remember from the Argentine side was the warning - We had to sign a waiver that we were held responsible for the Monkeys. Monkeys you ask? Well, it seems that if you do not lock your patio door, the monkeys know how to open the door. More importantly, they know how to find and raid the mini bar - for which you are financially responsible. I couldn't stop laughing when they told me that.  We got to our room, lovely, the balcony was huge, but the view was sweet. You can see the falls WAY in the background, so I said to my friend, wonder where the monkeys are - I turned around and Oh boy! they were running around quietly everywhere!  SO cute! 

And the falls were amazing! they also have these cute little animals called Coati - nicknamed the pig racoon.  They have a long snout like an anteater (hence the affiliation with a pig?) and a ringed tail like a racoon and dark eyes- not the same as a racoon but similar! And they were running around everywhere - the staff kept shooing them away from the tourists! 

From there we crossed the border into Brazil and stayed at a hotel on the brazil side of the national park.  More amazing photos - but the first night was the most stellar- so to speak. 

We accidentally - or more accurately, unintentionally- booked our stay during a full moon.  During a full moon our hotel offered full moon tours - sure, why not! Well, I had no idea there was such a thing as a lunar rainbow- sometimes called a moonbow.  A full arch of white from one side to the other from the moons reflection.  With the naked eye - it's only white - sometimes with the camera shot, you can see hints of color! 

The moonbow was seriously impressive - I'd never scene one before and doubt I'll ever see it again!  The next day we took a ride down to the bottom of the falls and then caught the sunset from the front yard of our hotel - if you like mother nature - you got quite the show! 

The downside of Iguazu is that we were starting to REALLY feel the heat! Very humid and very warm and we peetered out quickly! But, this has been on my bucket list since before bucket lists was a thing! (yeah, I'm that old) 

As for my writing - needless to say, on this trip I got almost NOTHING written so I am SCRAMBLING now to meet my editors deadline, there's a slight chance that Ryan might have to be pushed back a month, but we don't know yet - fingers crossed I get struck by a rush of inspiration and meet the deadline! 

Everything is being planned around the 26th when my daughter is scheduled for a C-section. Due to issues when my granddaughter was born, the doctors feel that with a large baby (already almost 8 lbs with three weeks to go!) that a c-section is in everyone best interest. This will be a little different for us, knowing what day the baby will be here. On the bright side, if it works out as planned, it will be easy to remember the birth date: 2- 26- 26 LOL. 

Okay- off to write some more in Ryan before I fall behind for my daily count!