This is Life!: Revolutions Around the Cruciform Axis

So, Now It Can Be Told: Ahem . . . Your Attention, Please!

Well, it's official. And since parents, grandparents and siblings--and our priest--have been informed, this announcement now goes out to the blogosphere.

Healy Baby Number Two is on the way. (The Mrs. gave the official approval to blog this, by the way. For background as to why this approval is important, see here and here.)

Glory to God.

As I said when Sofie was on the way, I am happy to welcome any child God sends our way. Being a dad, however, has grown in me the desire to have a son. Yes, I really hope we'll have a boy. If we have another girl, great, wonderful. But it's that guy thing: father-son hikes, sports, someone to carry on the Healy name (though my uncle has four boys, so little danger there), but also to carry on the "firstborn son" name of Clifton--and, quite frankly, the need for more male representation in the Healy home!

But as I told a friend this weekend, it occurred to me that it's already too late to pray that this child will be a boy! (All the hosts of heaven roll their collective eyes.) So, thanks be to God, this child will be welcome no matter what!

Pray for us, Anna, Sofie and me, and our new soon-to-be-born child.

Most Holy Theotokos, Holy Priest-martyr Eleutherius, and all the saints, pray for our baby soon to be born.