Patience

I've been in Sacramento now since Tuesday and it's a pleasant time to be in California. We visited the Napa Valley on Thursday; a typically Californian experience that involved tasting wine in an Italian castle that had been shipped over and reconstructed in the vineyard. Yesterday we met Jennifer and I got to see and feel Harriet moving so persistently. Jennifer and the girls looked great. Perhaps this weekend we will go to Reno, trying to keep busy so that the time passes until the moment arrives. There is so much we need to do and soon I will have to return home to sort out the animals and keep my job but we need to rely on Harriet to judge the right moment. We will be ready - the nappies, food and clothes are packed, the hospital address is stored in the GPS and the phone is watched very carefully. But for now the only thing required of us is patience.