20 days later

20 days later and I'm back in the office.

This is what happened 20 days before this day ...

After being so melodramatic about seeing and holding my newborn baby boy for the first time for weeks, I'm going to do it one more time. It's time to get melodramatic!

I finally made back home -- and at a distance -- were my family -- waiting.

It was a happy moment for me and my wife to have finally seen each other for after the longest time of our lives. My mother and father were also there as well as my grandmother. And the little dude -- he was right in my mother's arms sleeping blissfully through all the ruckus. And I was just there -- staring at him -- paralyzed. I wanted to hold him but I was afraid that my clumsiness might do something bad to him. I let mommy hold him for me as I gazed and wondered at God's greatest gift for me.

I really can't put in words the amazing feeling that I felt right at that instant -- I don't have that gift. But, the happiness simply surpasses anything I felt before -- it's a different level of happiness. All I can say was that I was happy -- purely happy.