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Welcome to the world Abby and Kate!

Congratulations Dave, Suzanne and Ben!

Hope everyone got their fair share of turkey and stuffing and all the favorites today and you’re all napping it off on the couch…Jenn’s folks were kind enough to bring over Thanksgiving dinner so we didn’t miss out on anything. It was really good! Best thing we’ve had all week by a long shot.

Now Jenn and Madeline are getting some rest before Maddie’s big meal! She really needs it…she was going nuts all day today. She finally fell asleep around 2pm which has been nice.

Now we’re watching the Cowboys-Buccaneers game. Jenn’s fever is still down, the doctor should be by at some point tonight so we can talk about the plan. We’re really hoping we get to go home tomorrow so our WHOLE family (mitchy and charles included) can be under one roof!

you know how you meet someone and you think “he’s probably an architect” and then you find out later that he actually IS an architect. some people are just meant to be what they are. they just fit the mold.

well, the doctor of infectious disease was just in her to examine jennie and if i were casting a doctor of infectious disease for a movie, this guy would get the part hands down. i mean, he looked like he just walked out of a marx brothers comedy about hospitals. not creepy or anything bad, just the way he talked and looked and dressed…from the coke-bottle thick glasses to the wispy hair, the lanky build to the brown sweater that he received as a gift for his graduation from medical school in 1968…this man was BORN to be a doctor of infectious disease.

i’m glad he found his calling!

not much going on. jennie’s been on the internet. we’ve been watching raymond and i took a 5 minute walk around the hospital.

speaking of the hospital, this summer while we were on vacation, i picked up a copy of “seabiscuit” in a used book shop! awesome book! awesome horse. we saw the movie a couple weeks ago and while it was pretty good, it was no match for the book.

speaking of someone who was no match for seabiscuit, let’s talk about War Admiral, who lost to the biscuit in what is widely considered the greatest match race of all time. War Admiral, of course, was the offspring of Man O’ War. (Seabiscuit was the offspring of War Admiral’s half-brother, Hard Tack).

Both War Admiral and Man O’ War were owned by none other than Samuel Riddle. Mr. Riddle was a native of Delaware County and had a large farm there. His will earmarked $2.5 million and 72 acres of his land to be used to build a hospital to serve the residents of Media, PA and the surrounding area. This is the same land on which Man O’ War grazed after his retirement.

Pretty neat!