Dear Monica Ruth

Dear Monica Ruth, Early this afternoon, your father and I were still unaware that you would be born yet today.  We thought your father could easily meet all his goals for today: copy his secretary’s minutes for school board; treat a group of feeder pigs with flu shots; spend an hour hunting with your oldest brother Daryl; eat supper with the family; do farm chores; shower and attend a school board meeting. By 2:00 this afternoon, I had my first contraction and began to wonder if our heavenly...