You can reach Sue at (314) 452-3685 or (314) 726-2032. You can write to her c/o Rose Holt, 905 Barnard College Lane, St. Louis, MO 63130


Hello from Rose. Ding is an awfully hard act to follow. The first thing I tried was adding our Thanksgiving Dinner photographs, but the only one that 'took' was Joel's. Tomorrow I'll try again to post many, many photos of our day together. It was a glorious one and one truly to be thankful for.

Den continues to improve. Seems there is a delicate balance to be maintained between Den's needs for physical and speech therapies and the insurance company's need to get him out of that place. So far Den's needs are winning out. He has had tons of company and is in pretty good spirits in spite of the labors of Hercules that his therapy places on him.

Sue is doing well. She spends as much time as she can with Den and is trying to manage all the nitty gritty detail of both their lives through this period. Aaron and Kim are able to fill in where Sue cannot. Den can be really proud of those two!

We've had Brayden since last Wednesday night, and that's why we haven't been blogging. With Brayden around, all we do is take care of him. He is such a dear little boy and such a joy. He's happy, has a sunny disposition, likes to skip along and sing, loves dogs and birds and squirrels, is shy with people, and now likes to be read to. We returned him to Daddy on Tuesday afternoon. In the days we had him, he probably cried a total of five minutes.