To My Parents

My parents were here for 3 weeks, they arrived a week before Dominick's arrival and were here for 2 weeks after.

Dear Mom and Dad,

Thank you so much for coming and spending those three weeks with us. During that last week of pregnancy you made our days so much easier. Even though I worked, it was nice to be able to spend lunches and the evenings with you. I hope you enjoyed exploring the desert and going to different places.

I am not sure how we would have survived the first couple of weeks after Dominick was here without you. You made our transition to parenthood that much sweeter and so much easier. Knowing that we could count on you to love on our boy, answer new parent questions and reassure us that we were doing things right meant more to us than you'll ever know.

We loved our few day trips that we took even though the Farmers Market was nothing like we expected and our original plans {San Francisco, San Diego and Catalina} didn't pan out, maybe your next trip.

I don't know if we can really put into words how much your stay meant to us. We know it wasn't much of a relaxing vacation since mom, you cooked, cleaned and did laundry every day you were here and dad you fixed mowers, hung shelves and put together baby products but we hope you had just as good of a time as we did.

After we dropped you off at the airport and we made our way back home and our house was empty, our dogs didn't know where you were and we were left to be parents without help I think for a brief moment we both wondered how we were going to do this without our family and closest friends. Somehow our transition is working and we're all still surviving. We know that no matter how far apart we are, you are always a phone call, text message or video chat away. We all miss you so much and look forward to our visit in November.

Again, thank you times a million. I'm so glad you were able to meet Dominick minutes after he was born.

All our love,
Ryan, Allison, Dominick, Calli and Rocky