Thanks for all the gifts, cards and meal

We've been deluged with kind and thoughful gifts, cards and meals from you all. Thank you, on behalf of Christopher. Thanks especially to Sandra Tully for arranging a dinner rota from Church and thanks to everyone who has brought us a meal (it's a real help, even before Christopher came along it'd often take us quite a while to decide what to cook, let alone cook it!).

We don't expect to receive anything (and Christopher certainly doesn't!), so don't feel you need to bear a gift to call around and visit.

However people sometimes ask what to get as a gift or "what does he need". We've already received more clothes than he's likely to wear in 0-3 months. We've quite a number of lovely blankets and quilts as well at this stage. He might enjoy a toy or two, but again he has a few already and he certainly isn't lacking in them. There are far more needy Children around, even in Ireland.

But we're thankful for all the gifts we receive and as Over The Rhine would say (or sing!) "there's nothing harder than learning how to receive".