Dreary day...

Dear Nicky,

It sure doesn't feel like spring. Today it was cold and wet with occasional freezing rain, if you can believe it. I think your mom is going to miss work. Either that, or the stress of putting on a happy face for her coworkers has finally begun to wear thin. She was pretty tearful when she got home. The eager anticipation with which we await your arrival is sadly mixed with the great fear and anxiety we have for your predicted condition, a prediction we daily pray to be wrong. It's tough, and as I've said before, your mother has it tougher because her job is already full of stress. They gave her a new laptop computer at work so she can check her email and do stuff at home during her maternity leave. But it's a Wintel laptop, and they suck. So it's been a pretty lousy day all in all. No pressure, Nick, but if you wanted to, oh, say, shed an extra chromosome, it'd mean a lot to both of us. God bless and watch over you.

Love,
Dad