Matthew is a month old!! Needless to say, while I’m still getting used to having the opportunity to brag about my son to people (guilty of this to an embarrassing degree), I’m still simply in awe of the sheer complex simplicity that is human life. Anna and I were talking about this the other night – just the immensely amazing fact that something so simple is, at the same instant, beyond our ability to describe properly due to the intricately complexity. A child. A human being. The ability of creation is staggering – and humbling. I joke about the fact that we were only required to basically sign a birth certificate before the hospital allowed us to bring Matthew home…but sometimes, it staggers me that this is all that they require. Matthew, as perfect as he is, still requires immense levels of attention (not to mention patience) from us; something that sometimes I can be short of when I’m not fully cognizant of my surroundings (which makes me watch in awe as Anna handles this new responsibility with what seems, to me, instinctual ease).
Obviously, work has taken a burner farther back on the proverbial stove of our lives as we get reacquainted with the demands of actually having a family (ironic how the life that we lived before this seems so far and distant from what we are experiencing today – even though it literally has been just a few days over a month since it all really changed). I’m back in the office for most of the week (gotta love those banking holidays) and Anna is finally feeling back up to getting in the car to make the drive into the ‘office’ that she works from.
We’re still getting used to the schedule changes that Matthew has demanded, so we’re finding it somewhat difficult to schedule visitations for the little ‘wiggle-worm’ (to see the definition of this, just check out the video that Anna posted on Facebook), but we’re getting better. Hopefully we’ll manage to get that figured out here soon (though, from what I understand, we’re just getting to the point where we realize how much of a lack of control we actually have…).
As always, if you’re in the area, shoot us a text or give us a call. I can’t make any solid promises, but we will definitely try our best to get everything into some rough semblance of order and have you over for a cup of coffee! -Jay
