Ft. Campbell makes the news!

This is from todays Army Times:

Fort Campbell baby boom hits 2,007 in 2007

 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most hospitals celebrate the first babies born of the year, but Fort Campbell’s hospital is focusing on the deliveries at the end of the year.

The 2,007th baby was born Sunday at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital, a milestone in the base’s baby boom created by troops returning last fall.

Jennifer Taylor, 32, is hoping the special designation for her new son, Joseph, gives him a little extra luck.

“I think it means we can expect great things from him,” Taylor said Monday from her hospital room, about 60 miles north of Nashville.

Taylor and her husband, Sgt. Danny Taylor, are among thousands of growing families at the post on the Tennessee-Kentucky state line that is home to the 101st Airborne Division.

Hospital officials saw a huge increase in births, nearly twice the usual number of deliveries per month, about nine months after 20,000 soldiers with the 101st returned from a deployment in Iraq.

When Sgt. Taylor returned home in November, the couple wanted to have another baby boy to join their three other children. But like many of the other families on base, the new father was deployed again in September before Joseph could be born.

“I don’t think we knew he was going to be gone so soon,” she said, noting she gave him the good news by phone on Sunday night. “Joey will be 7 months old before his dad holds him, but that’s a commitment you make as a family.”

While a temporary increase in births is not uncommon after soldiers return, the boom this year is the biggest the post has seen in decades.

The 2,007th delivery caps a very busy year for the hospital, which only had 1,352 deliveries last year, according to Lt. Col. Diane Adams, the chief of women’s health. More were expected at other nearby hospitals in Tennessee and Kentucky.

Taylor said she’ll depend on relatives living nearby and a close church family to help her through another deployment with a new baby.

“I think it’s something only military families deal with, but it’s something that you have to accept,” she said.

My very own grandson was born during the boom.

Christmas A Capella

I found this on another blog. It’s really funny!!

Oh, and it’s a group from Indiana University!!!

Winter Wonderland

This from weather.com:

“Around the Great Lakes, the heaviest snow, along with blowing and drifting, currently blankets southeast Michigan and much of Ohio.

The heaviest snowfall is expected to extend in an arc from northern Maine to western New York; a foot or more of additional snow is expected to pile up.”

It is really coming down out there, so I am so blessed to be in a nice warm house, and all the makings for the fudge to send to Robbie.

Why do I do this?

This version of this song is really getting to me this year. Yet I can’t turn it off.

Happy Birthday Betsy!

My oldest grandchild, Betsy, turns FIVE today!! In this picture, she is “feeding” her baby…just like Auntie Em was feeding baby Gavin.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Here is this years tree. My ace light-stringer is off riding helicopters over the sand, so I had to do it myself. Note at the bottom of the tree, there are presents. Wrapped presents. Yes, I know, it isn’t 2 am Christmas morning. I am hoping this year to be asleep at that time, for the first time in about a decade and a half.

This picture comes from our trip to Joni’s at Thanksgiving. We went to downtown Noblesville to check it out(it was so pretty and a very nice village atmosphere). I was really pleased by this banner.

My firstborn…

and his firstborn!!