On a serious note.....

One of my New Year's resolutions this year is to become more organized. Most of this is wrapped up in time management (or my lack thereof). I thought establishing a blog would be a good time saver and great way to stay better connected with family and friends.

Also, as most of you know, 2008 is going to be quite a year for Finley. I wanted to find a way to keep everyone who loves her informed of what is happening with her. Blogging her progress seems to be the most effective communication tool for doing so.

Her first surgery is scheduled for March 4th (assuming she is healthy for the period between now and then). We will travel to Dallas over the weekend, pre-op on Monday, surgery on Tuesday. She's likely be in the ICU Tuesday night. If there are no complications, this will be the only night she'll have to stay in the hospital. They ask that we stay in Dallas one more day, before returning home with all four limbs in casts!!! We'll go back in June for the second phase of her syndactyly release. In August, she'll have her skull fusion release and hopefully that will be it for 2008! (I think that's enough for one year).

Hard to believe that this happy little squirt spent the first four months of her life crying!