Thanks, everyone, for your good wishes! I’m not really supposed to be downstairs, but my kids are so excited about the baby that they’ve been carrying him around all day! I called to them a couple of times to bring him to me so I could feed him, but they didn’t hear, so I came down to tell them myself. And naturally, once I’m here I had to pop in!
I’ll share the fun and interesting details of the birth another time, probably after Shabbos. I’ll just say that it’s very humbling to realize that no matter how many kids you have, there’s something new to experience and learn. I’m feeling great and hope to see some of you who live in the area tonight!
And yes, it’s going to be another erev yom tov bris! We’re on a roll with the last three boys! The gabbai of our shul was joking the first night of Pesach with dh that he was waiting to hear that we were making a bris the next morning because of our past history. He was off by the holiday, but not the basic idea! Ds3 was the first day of Pesach, ds20 months was erev Rosh Hashana, and now this baby will b’ezras Hashem be on erev Shavuos, which is also my husband’s birthday. 🙂 To do that they had to be born on very different time tables from all of their due dates – 2 weeks early, 3 weeks early, and 3 weeks late. Hashem’s timing is perfect, isn’t it!
Have a great Shabbos!
Avivah
MAZAL TOV!!! This little neshamaleh couldn’t have picked a finer family… or a finer country of birth!
Oh, Ruti, this post was about my now 2.5 year old! We’re happy he picked out family and that he’s enjoying living in Israel, but this good news isn’t current! Sorry to disappoint you.
The nice thing about baby joy is that it doesn’t get old. Not 2.5 years later. Not 25 years later. He still picked the right family… and — as Rabbi Goldberger told me, “America has been good to her Jews.” So he did okay there, too. May he continue to enjoy life in one of the greatest families, and one of the greatest countries, in the whole wide world. 😉
What beautiful sentiments, Ruti – thank you!
Aviva, I also got this and a couple of other similar related posts in my RSS feed at the end of last month. I was SO confused since I didn’t hear you say anything about being pregnant until I saw it.
Yehudit, thank you for letting me know. I dont know how the RSS feed works, but it seems that when I correct a typo on a past post, the post comes up in the feed. I don’t know how to avoid this, unfortunately, and it’s frustrating for me to know that if I want to correct the spelling of something, that it will show up as a new post.