If We Build It...She Will Come

Since last Monday we've been "at term" -- the point at which labor and delivery could come at any time. While our official due date is another week from tomorrow, "term" counts the time two weeks before and two weeks after the due date. So it's pretty imperative we be ready.

Building the crib

To that end, we've been doing a lot of rearranging around our 1-bedroom home. Mather will share our bedroom, with the crib against the wall opposite our bed, where our desk used to be. Of course, she doesn't just need a crib -- she also needs a set of drawers for all her fabulous new clothes and a diaper changing station.

Mather's "Bedroom"

We're feeling ready, and hoping she'll come soon. Above the crib is an adorable string of blue animals from Grandpa Cary and Sheryl, along the back of the crib is the hand-crafted blanket from Meghan Ritchie, and against the wall is Mather's Coat of Arms.


This Coat-of-Arms is the actual (verifiable) crest of Reverend Richard Mather's House in England prior to emigrating to the colonies. My great-great Uncle Charles Lake Ransom, William R. Ransom's brother, drew this illustration of it over a century ago and my Aunt Guin gave it to us during the Vermont Family Reunion. Of course, it isn't ours -- it's Mather's.