Henry's First Day

Henry's first day really began the day before he was actually born, February 9th.  It was Wednesday and like any other Wednesday, Mom and Dad were at work.  Around midday, Dad was just arriving home for a lunch break, however this lunch break was interrupted by a phone call that shouldn't have been but was quite surprising.  Mom was calling to inform Dad that labor had begun and that she was on the way home.   With this most exciting and alarming news, Dad prepared himself for a long ordeal by doing what any other male would do, he ate lunch.

Mom arrived home about 30 minutes later by way of her principal, who was most excited to take part in the "festivities" by giving Mom a ride home.  From there the afternoon and evening progressed into a whirlwind of phone calls, car rides, doctors' offices and hospital rooms.

Henry was born at 1:26 on the morning of February 10th after only a few hours of labor.  All in all it was a successful day.  Mom and Dad left the hospital on the afternoon of February 12th for home.  Though the feeling was of relief for putting the hospital behind them, there also was the underlying feeling of terror at what they had just accomplished.  "Whose baby is this and why is he in our room?" Mom recalls thinking at some point on the 12th.  Really there never was any serious doubt about whose child they had come home with or if they had made the right decision.  They had left home a family of two and came home a family of three, and they couldn't have been happier.

The Defferdings would like to offer their sincere and heartfelt gratitude for everyone's prayers and support.

Our Little Monster

A New Blog for a New Life

Our family really is nothing special.  We have jobs, we have a house, we have stuff to fill our house.  We love God, we love each other, we love our fellow man.  Nothing special.  I don't mean to say our life is  boring, it most certainly is not.  But to the outside observer there is nothing remarkable about us.

To our most ordinary life we recently added a twist.  A baby boy.  Henry Charles Defferding is his name and he made his timely entrance on February 10th, 2011.  At 1:36 am, if you care to know.  He has made a most ordinary family into something, by my estimation, extraordinary.  This blog is the story of Henry.

Blog entries can be expected every Tuesday.  Topics will range from Henry's daily activities to Megan's "girl time" outings to Aaron's latest brewed concoction.  It will be a blog about our life with our brand new baby boy.  Our hope is that you will find it interesting enough to read yet aware enough to avoid being pretentious and self important (as most blogs of this type are).