One of the reasons blogging has been light - welcoming a new grandchild to the world ;-)

Jack with his dad (my older son)

The most recent addition to my family is Jack Hunter Witt, fifth child and third son of my older son Charlie and his wife Mai Lea. He was born at 1:17 on the afternoon of Thursday, September 20, weighs 7 pounds and 6 ounces, and is 2.5 inches long. Jack has a small amount of light brown hair plus all of the appropriate body parts, in the appropriate amounts.

It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us.

~ Dickens

Infant Sorrow by William Blake

My mother groand! my father wept.

Into the dangerous world I leapt:

Helpless, naked, piping loud; 

Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Struggling in my fathers hands: 

Striving against my swaddling bands: 

Bound and weary I thought best

To sulk upon my mothers breast.