After a run home to walk and feed the dog, I returned to this idyllic scene of mom nursing our happy baby in a comfy hospital techno-bed. Mom is getting a nutritionist-approved menu to produce the nectar that baby is taking almost hourly. Daddy, on the other hand, is eating institutional food in the hospital cafeteria. Then he has a hard vinyl visitor's bench to look forward to sleeping on tonight so that he can help mom with everything else while she does her feedings tonight. These are my minor costs of joy.

- mike lee -