My sad post...

You may ask yourself - why the long face?

Sorry... had to reference an obscure old SNL bit by David Spade called "Hollywood Minute". That's Ric Ocasek lead singer of the Cars - whose greatest hits I was listening to today. But I'm a bit off topic. What was the topic? I guess you could call it a postpartum depression of sorts.

Ok, I know I shouldn't joke about this cause it is a true disorder but I have a little right now. And it's not for the reason you might think. I didn't give birth and have dropped hormone levels and cry a lot. But what I have been dealing with is being separated from my baby girl Elena for 6 days now and probably for another 5 or 6 still to come.

Why have I been apart from my precious girl so long? It's for a good reason involving some good news. It seems Jen and her sister have a buyer for their late mom's house. This is the good news. The not so good news is the stress of going through all their mom's possessions in a short 3+ weeks, having an estate sale, arranging movers and storage, and all the other loose ends of moving and selling a house.

I am of course stuck in Cincinnati working and am terribly missing Elena and Jennifer. What makes me even more sad is that Elena is beginning to smile at people, make cooing sounds, and interact with objects. All firsts that I unfortunately have missed. I've only witnessed the cries, whines, poops, naps, and feedings. I'M MISSING ALL THE GOOD STUFF!! ;-)

I suppose you can look at the positives. I HAVE been getting more sleep and not changing dirty diapers is nice. I've also plenty of time to play a lot of racquetball and tennis recently. But I'd gladly trade it for a chance to snuggle with my little coo-dums. I miss her!!

So anyway, enough about me. I'll get over being sad. I promise.

Elena is 8 weeks old today and will be 2 months old on the 6th of June. I hope to get more pictures and video up on the website soon. Hope everyone is well. Thanks for reading!