Mom and Meika

Here we are in the hospital, twenty-nine years ago. Twenty-nine years!!! Yikes. See the teddy bear on the nightstand? That's Jill, and she was a gift from my daddy on the day I was born. I still have her, though I stopped sleeping with her a few years ago to keep any more of her limbs from needing to be held on with safety pins - or her head, heaven forbid!