Shannon’s World

My weekend started with a text message from Matt stating that Alison was having her baby. . .and less than 90 minutes later, she did!  Ethan John Hunt was born 8 weeks earlier than expected but he is a fighter and doing better and better each day.

After loading up on fruits, vegetables, honey and goodies at the Farmer’s Market.  Jorie and I drove up to Chicago to visit the Hunt’s.  Alison was doing well and looked great after being in labor for most of the night.  We had a good visit with a lot of friends (Ethan’s shower was supposed to be on Saturday, so a few of us congregated in a small room at the hospital and enjoyed some Sweet Mandy B’s cupcakes and drinks, opened some presents).  One of the highlights of the visit was going to visit Ethan in the NICU.  It’s safe to say I’ve never seen a baby that small and it was just so amazing to watch little Ethan lay there so peacefully (and other times not so peacefully - he was quite the grabber!).

After leaving the Hunt’s so they could get some much needed sleep, Sarah, Jorie, Carolyn and I headed to Adobo for some guac and rittas - the meal did not disappoint!  After dinner I headed back to Carolyn’s, where I spent the night at their beautiful new home.  Believe it or not, I’d been outside their house a few times, but this was my first trip inside and it was just gorgeous.

Sunday morning, after getting sucked in to a little Tori Spelling reality trash TV, I headed back to the hospital for another visit with Alison and Matt before heading to Crown Point, Indiana for Eliza’s bridal shower.  It was a fun shower with lots of present opening and great favors (I’ll post about those later).

Jorie and I met up in Merriville and drove back to Indy with some new tunes loaded on the Ipod, thank you, Duke!

For some reason when I got home I was exhausted but couldn’t sleep (could it have been the XL McDonalds sweet teas I’m obsessed with?).  I got home too late to see Miss Libby, so at about midnight I snuck into her room, picked the ton of bricks up (26 lbs of dead weight is hard to work with in the dark!) and held her for a long time just rocking.  She never woke up, but it was the best feeling in the world to hold my sweet girl after a weekend away.