Babies change a lot of things. What I didn't expect Maddi to change was my TV standards. Unfortunately, when you feed babies the way Mother Nature intended, you spend a lot of time sitting in a room by yourself. If you are lucky, that room has a television.

Unfortunately, my daughter seems to time her feedings in such a way that there is nothing on when she is eating other than "Dr. Phil" and TLC's "Clean Sweep." Hating talk shows and tidiness as I do, these are not my preferred viewing fare. And yet I have watched at least half of "Dr. Phil" every day this week.

The things we do for our children.

And here it is, the gratuitous cute picture of the week:

While this blog is a great hobby (one that I don't get to work on enough), I am pleased to report that I have finally finished a side project I've been working on for the better part of a year.

The project is something I've wanted to do pretty much since I was a toddler, and I have to say that it turned out even better than I imagined it would.

After months of physical hardship, budgeting and planning, my labors culminated at 1:21 a.m. May 6 in the birth of a healthy baby girl.

Casa de WYD is delighted to present Maddux Elise, 7 pounds and 14 ounces of sweetness.

Owing to having gone through two full days of early labor, five and a half hours of excruciating, rapid back labor and more than an hour of pushing, I feel as if I've been hit by a semi and probably will be posting even less than before. And that whole new-parent-of-voracious-and-unsleeping-piranha thing doesn't help either!

For those of you who know me personally and would like a link to my pregnancy blog (yes, that explains my spotty posting of late), shoot me an email.