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My younger sister had her first baby, Colin Matthew, on Saturday. The delivery was about 8 weeks early, and baby Colin will have to spend several weeks in intensive care. Mom and baby are doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances. There don’t seem to be any additional complications.

Fortunately, I live in the same town as the hospital where Colin was delivered. I spent most of the weekend in and out of the hospital. My sister and her husband have an upstairs apartment, and we don’t have any other family here in town. So, she will have to stay with my wife and I for a few weeks after she’s released from the hospital.

That means I’ll have to spend the next couple of days getting my extra room, which I’m using as office and storage right now, set up as a bedroom. So, I won’t have time to blog, or even be online very much, until at least the middle of the week, and maybe longer.

My sister and I are very close. We look out for one another. She is a lot younger than me, and in many ways, she’s more like my oldest child than my youngest sibling. I’m on the list of people who can vist Colin at any time without one of the parents being there. So, even after I get the house situated, I’ll be spending a lot of time sitting with Colin while he’s in the ICU unit.

Best to all. I’ll be back as soon as I can.