My niece Cheri Clegg, my wife Deb's sister's daughter, was admitted to a hospital over in New Jersey today in order to have her 3rd child.
Cheri was overdue and has been in our thoughts and prayers, and we are very much looking forward to meeting the new entry into the family.
It was just six months ago that my eldest daughter, Christine, brought my grandson Reznor Lloyd into the world.
It is blessed events like these that grow and sustain a family, and we look forward to even more grandchildren, nieces, and nephews in the future.
Just yesterday, at the Bellflower Medical Center in California, a woman gave birth and her family also grew. Why the interest in a California family welcoming a new birth? Well, that birth involved the family welcoming not one child, but multiples. No, not twins, not even triplets.
Nope, not quadruplets, quintuplets, or sextuplets. That would be six, by the way. Do you even know what they call a 7-baby birth? I didn't, I had to look it up. That would be septuplets.
But no, Natalie Suleman, the California woman, had even more. She gave birth to what might end up as an American first should they all survive. They are only the second set of octuplets to be born alive in this country's history.
