I made a bunch of food for this couple with a new baby. They live a handful of neighborhoods away from us, and the midwife mentioned to me that the mom seemed to be really struggling, so I reached out to see how I could make a difference. The irony of my making a bunch of food for them is that I barely manage to feed myself still these days. But my husband was home yesterday evening, so I had him keep the baby outside while he cleaned his motorcycle and worked on it a bit, and I made us both dinner and then made the huge stir-fry and put together a crock-pot stew for overnight for the other couple.
So, dropped it off to them today – oh, and we had a multi-hour power outage today, which was a bit wild, but the weather was okay at the time, so we were okay physically – and found some ties with them. Turns out they go to a Church I’ve wondered about attending. So, might end up going with them after Easter, which could be cool. The husband seems super nice and friendly. When I had met the wife, she seems angry and overwhelmed and just done with the world. So, I don’t know if she’s just always kind of negative and angry, or if she’s merely a happy person who is currently in the pits of postpartum depression and physical-body-suck and minimal sleep and exhaustion and wits end and mostly-solo-parenting disasters… perhaps time will tell!
If nothing else, I did a good thing for a new family.
God, keep us safe and make us well, please, my husband and daughter especially. In your name, I pray. Amen.
Post-a-day 2026
hannah ananas 