The Morning After

Yesterday Coral called into my radio show of all places to tell me our next baby will be a boy.  We’re both very excited for December and its not because of PRESENTS for a change.

I was thinking back to when Madelyn was a baby.  Coral and I lived on Yates Street downtown in a little bedroom + den thing.  Maddy’s nursery was in the den.  Coral thought a room without windows was no place to raise a child so that is what made us respectable rate-payers and we bought our condo.  But for about the first three months of Madelyn’s life, we lived on Yates Street beside a Moxies.  I walked to work.  We pushed a stroller to the Market for groceries or the Starbucks at Quadra for a coffee.  We were on the ground floor so we even had a tiny yard!

During that time I listened to a lot of Grand Archives.  The Seattle band doesn’t seem to be very active these days…but I can always listen to “Swan Matches” and be transported back to laying on my couch in our little apartment on Yates Street with a brand new baby.

I wonder if (or hope) that a song rises up in December or January that will be as special for the new baby.

Go with yourself.