Sunday Dinner, May 6, 2007

Surprise!! I'm home! Just in time for Sunday Dinner, too.

I'm open to eating out for this Mother's Day Sunday Dinner, but if I end up at home cooking, we'll be having spaghetti and meat sauce for our Sunday Dinner.

Before anybody gets all excited thinking that I'm making homemade spaghetti sauce, don't. I bought a big jar of Ragu original sauce and I'm browning some ground beef, then adding the spaghetti sauce. It won't take long to prepare, so I'll make the sauce after I get home from church and boil the pasta. I hate leftover pasta, so I always make it fresh.

That's it. Unless someone brings something else to add to the menu, of course.

So what are your plans? I figure a lot of my readers will be treated to lunch this Mother's Day, but if by chance you're cooking please share your meal plan.
Now you know I didn't come home from Jessica and Jason's without new pictures, so here they are.

Most of them are pretty self-explanatory, I think.

Jessica is breast-feeding Emmy, and she latches onto almost anything if she's getting hungry. While Jessica was taking a bath today, Emmy woke up hungry. She latched onto my finger as I was comforting her and was content until Jessica could nurse her. Jessica snapped a few pictures for me before she took Emmy to nurse her.

Dad watches his baby girl as Mama nurses Emmy. Are they adorable, or what?!

The next several are of Emmy. She's a big 'un, now ain't she?

Since she sleeps so much right now, it's harder than you might think to catch her with her eyes wide open.

If you ask Jessica, she'll tell you a different story, though. Emmy is eating every 2-4 hours and Jessica isn't getting much sleep. At least not much at a stretch. She's getting 2 or 3 hours here and there. While I was there I managed to get Emmy to sleep about 4 hours straight a few times, but most of the time she's ready to nurse every 3 hours on average.

Since Jessica is nursing, I couldn't help much with feeding Emmy right now, but Jessica will be pumping her breast milk for bottle feeding after she goes back to work. No word on when that might be, but it will be several weeks yet, I'm sure, especially since Jessica had to have a C-section.

Most of Emmy's newborn outfits just swallow her, even the 0-3 months stuff. She has a few outfits that almost fit her and plenty of things to grow into yet.

Would you believe Emmy is already smiling? It's very fleeting and hard to catch, but she is smiling.

Jessica has been taking it pretty easy and keeping her feet up a lot of the time, but she's feeling much better. In fact, she's feeling better every day. She's still really swollen and retaining a lot of fluid, but that should improve daily. She and Emmy have their first checkups on Monday.


You might not be able to guess, but that bundle that Jason is holding is little Emmy. A more doting, loving, involved Daddy you'll never find, I don't think.
All through Jessica's pregnancy Jason has went to high school every morning to get one last credit in English so he can graduate, then worked all afternoon into the evening to support them. I am so proud of him, and I told him so. He has shown such maturity and responsibility. A lot more than even some older men, I have to say. He is a good Daddy already, and has been there for Jessica all through her difficult pregnancy and through her delivery.

Mama loves you, Jason-Bob. :-)

Grandpa likes Emmy a little bit, too. He's pickled tink over her. Can you tell by his expression in that picture? I'm thinking besotted might be the word I'm looking for here.

Lamar likes babies, but he can't wait until Emmy's big enough to push in her stroller. He took Jessica for walks all over town in her stroller when she was tiny, and friends still talk about it when we see them around town.

It won't be long before Emmy is that big! I told Jessica and Jason they'd better enjoy her now, because they'll turn around and Emmy will be starting school, then she'll be graduating, then married before they know it!

I remember my Mama and the older folks talking about how much faster time flies as you get older, but I never understood it when I was younger. Now I really do understand it, and it is so true.

This last picture is one of my favorites so far.

I had big plans for a Mother's Day post, but Emmy's arrival kind of threw a monkey wrench in the works. A very welcome monkey wrench, I must say.

Next to my first Mother's Day after Jessica arrived, I have to say that this will be the best Mother's Day I've ever had. Thank you, Jessica and Jason, for being loving and responsible parents, and choosing life for my Emmy.

Thank you from the bottom of this Grandma's heart for my Emmy.

Mama loves you, Jessica and Jason. And Grandma loves you, Miss Emmy.

I love you, Lamar. I don't tell you that enough, I know, babe.

Once again, I want to wish everyone a very happy and blessed Mother's Day.

May God richly bless you by meeting all your needs, and may you have enough to share.

I am blessed beyond anything I deserve this Mother's Day.