Joy, and Sorrow

This little madam stayed peacefully asleep in her car chair while we all ate our dinner, but very soon after this, decided she was really rather hungry herself...

The joy over Allegra is tempered rather by the fact that, in the same hospital where she was born, one of my oldest and best friends (and my blip mother's mother) is battling for her life with bacterial meningitis. If you pray at all, could you ask that the swelling on her brain goes down as soon as possible?