Two Weeks Later...

I have to say that now that we are home and settled in, I realize that the hospital is, in fact, the best place to visit a person when they've had a baby. Why? Because it takes way less effort to recieve visitors at the hospital where there is an entire staff looking after you and where nobody expects you to look at all presentable than at home, where you feel like you need to have at least tried to brush your teeth before people come over and ideally have showered and cleaned up the mess that's been piling up over the past several days because you can't even sneeze without hurting yourself. Yes, much easier. But I also realize that the generosity of people is never more apparent than at times like these. The food, the gifts, the warm wishes are all so lovely that it is impossible to feel at all put out by the fact that people want to come and see you and your new baby.