Mississippi

Here we are in the dirty sipp (as it's called by the locals). We've been here a little over a week, and it has been a bit of an adjustment for all 3 of us. Shayna is home alone with Trace from about 7am until 6pm every day... her belly is getting bigger (for a good reason) and Trace takes good care of her. I drive 40min each way to my clinical rotation, spend as much time on my feet now as I did on my rear last year, and am trying to find time to study at the end of each day. We are adjusting! Our new "RV Park" is a bit muddy since it rained most of last week (we are finding out slowly why its called the dirty sipp). Our home started to sink so we had to repark it a few times, but I think we've finally got it so that we wont find ourselves submerged in the middle of the night. We've made some new friends: The Kimbroughs, natives to the south, have had us over a few times (their son Kyle is a friend from school) and have proven that they have mastered the art of southern hospitality (we feel very blessed to live so close to them). It was a relief to finally meet Shayna's midwife, Norma Clark, yesterday for the first time. We are totally confident in her abilities to be a part of the birth of baby #2- she's been delivering babies for 18 years now in 3 states. The town we are in is officially considered to be a village (population 229). It does have a gas station/convenience store/pizza buffet... what more could we hope for. The branch, only 15 minutes away, is even smaller than our last, but still a very friendly group of southerners. The weather is finally warming up and we are thankful for it.

 Gentry RV Park

Tiny New Albany Branch